Shoeless Joe Jackson baseball card sells for $492K

A Shoeless Joe Jackson baseball card from a 1910 series has sold for $492,000, according to ESPN's Tom VanHaaren.

The final bid was placed on Thursday during an auction for the collectible that Ben Foster of North Carolina found in a metal lunch pail stored at the back of an unfinished law office.

A decade after first discovering the card collection, Foster decided to do a full inventory and he found the Jackson piece, which was part of a valuable tobacco collection produced in the early 1900s.

Jackson played baseball professionally for 13 seasons, suiting up for the Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Naps, and Chicago White Sox.

Before he died in 1951, Jackson was famously associated with the 1919 Black Sox scandal, when White Sox players conspired to fix the World Series.