The most expensive baseball card in history just sold for $12.6 million

The worth nearly doubled the earlier document for a baseball card set when a uncommon Honus Wagner bought for $6.6 million final 12 months. And it additionally beat out the document for any merchandise of sports activities memorabilia, bypassing the $9.3 million sale of Diego Maradona’s well-known ‘Hand of God’ jersey.

Mantle spent 17 years enjoying for the New York Yankees and was inducted into the Baseball Corridor of Fame in 1974. The record-breaking card is from his rookie season and was produced by buying and selling card big Topps.

For the public sale home, the sale represents the rising draw of sports activities collectibles.

“An eight-figure public sale outcome within the sports activities market was the stuff of fantasy only a decade in the past,” stated Chris Ivy, Heritage’s director of sports activities auctions, stated within the launch.

“We at all times knew this card would shatter data and expectations. However that does not make it any much less of a thrill to be a part of an public sale throughout which a single merchandise breaks the eight-figure threshold for the primary time. It is a unprecedented accomplishment for our fantastic crew of sports activities specialists at Heritage Auctions. And, in fact, we couldn’t have carried out it with out our consignor, Anthony Giordano, who put his belief in Heritage to carry this wonderful card to market.”

Anthony Giordano purchased the Mantle card for what was a record-breaking value in 1991: $50,000. He stored it hidden away for 3 many years earlier than bringing it to Heritage Auctions, in accordance with the discharge.

“It bears the best qualities any 1952 Topps can possess: good centering, registration and 4 sharp corners,” stated Ivy within the launch. “That this Mantle rookie card remained on this situation for 70 years is a real miracle.”