This might be the most exciting auction of baseball photographs ever; there's no other way to put it. The entire archive of photographer Charles M. Conlon, his life's work photographing America's pastime, is being auctioned off this weekend and the collection is expected to fetch over $1,000,000.
Charles M. Conlon was an early 20th century American photographer who was among the first to regularly photograph baseball games and players. Although he shot many iconic early photos of the sport, his name was largely unknown until 1990, when 8,000+ of his negatives were found in the archives of Sporting News.
Many of the photos were heavily marked, and the Digital Archive Project at the National Baseball Hall of Fame has been working to restore those images for future generations.