A Mickey Mantle 1952 Baseball Card Is the Most Invaluable

Oh, Mickey, you are so high-quality.

A Mickey Mantle baseball card from 1952 simply offered at an public sale for $12,600,000, making it essentially the most helpful piece of sports activities memorabilia on the earth.

The earlier report was held by Diego Maradona’s Hand of God jersey from the 1986 World Cup, which a Russian oligarch bought for a cool $9.3 million. Honus Wagner’s baseball card fetched $6.6 million final 12 months, however Mantle’s rookie card nearly doubled that spectacular determine.

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

However that fantasy turned a actuality over the weekend. Why the latest surge? For starters, the Mickey Mantle card is in impeccable situation — it was graded Mint+ 9.5. by Sportscard Warranty Company. However specialists say there’s additionally been an increase in traders shelling out huge bucks for nostalgia.

“Rapidly, individuals are like, ‘Wow, these items may very well be artwork,'” says Michael Osacky, the lead appraiser for Skilled Sports activities Authenticator, in an interview with The New York Times.

Could be time to drag that outdated shoe field of collectibles out of the closet.

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