carl hench meat market.long with meats and sausages he sells candies and other grocery items. >> was he successful? >> very successful. very well known. >> in 1909 he marries his love jenny start a family and buy that dream home. >> by now baseball is long established itself as the national past time. for decades various companies used baseball cards to sell their products. >> the first nationally circulated cards came inside packages of tobacco in the late 1980's. it was the opportunity for the average citizen to own a real photo. >> candy companies jump into the game, too. the care mel cards help sell the sweets of the day. >> you have cy young, christie matthew son. >> children love the candy but the cards even more. >> kids did what kids do. they traded them card flipping games they did with them. >> all karl and karl know is the cards may have come from their grandfather's store. >> our guess is he would have given them away as promotional items. like any good businessman when you got leftovers you save

. >> and the grandchildren of carl and jenny hench are cleaning out the home. they found a dust covered box containing vintage baseball cards. >> i had went to theauk sites and i am seeing a ty cobb for 40000 and i am looking at what i have, going mine is better. >> the box carl found in the a ttic not only cobb known as the george why peach but not just one of each player. in all 800 cards most in pristine condition. >> it takes it out of a scope and a realm and you are not sure how to handle it. >> step one, find out if the cards are real. carl reaches out to expert peter calderon in dallas. >> i receive the a cryptic phone call. and on a daily basis we receive phone call ands always a reprint. npeter tells carl to take photos and he will take a look when he gets a chance. >> when i got the first picture, this is going to be foiled in too good to be thorough. they looked amazing and nothing about them that suggested they were not real and the next plan, we talked about him sending me a sample of the cards. there was a note. call me before you open. >> and box