{"id":1626303,"date":"2022-08-30T06:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626303"},"modified":"2022-08-30T06:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:03:05","slug":"priciest-baseball-card-ever-sells-at-auction-for-12-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/priciest-baseball-card-ever-sells-at-auction-for-12-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Priciest Baseball Card Ever Sells at Auction for $12.6 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpriciest-baseball-card-ever-sells-at-auction-for-12-6-million%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626303&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-baseball-2\">baseball<\/a> card sold for more than\u00a0$12 million at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-auction\">auction<\/a>, making it both the most valuable sports card and the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p>The Mickey Mantle baseball card from 1952 was graded\u00a0a Mint+ 9.5 by Sportscard Guaranty Corporation, and was sold by\u00a0Heritage Auctions for\u00a0$12.6 million at\u00a012:28 a.m. CST, on Aug. 28, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ha.com\/heritage-auctions-press-releases-and-news\/heritage-auctions-sells-1952-topps-mickey-mantle-rookie-card-for-12.6-million-setting-the-record-for-world-s-most-valuable-sports-collectible.s?releaseId=4538&amp;ic=hero-www-SportsPlatinumMantle-learnMore-50058-082822\">press release<\/a> from the\u00a0Dallas, Texas-based auction house.<\/p>\n<p>Its sale price far outweighs the previous record for a\u00a0baseball card set by the\u00a0T206 Honus Wagner, which sold for $6.6 million last year.<\/p>\n<p>It also far surpasses the record for any item of sports memorabilia, which was previously set with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ha.com\/heritage-auctions-press-releases-and-news\/heritage-auctions-sells-1952-topps-mickey-mantle-rookie-card-for-12.6-million-setting-the-record-for-world-s-most-valuable-sports-collectible.s?releaseId=4538&amp;ic=hero-www-SportsPlatinumMantle-learnMore-50058-082822\">$9.3 million<\/a> sale\u00a0of Diego Maradona\u2019s famous \u201cHand of God\u201d jersey earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The card sold during the first session of the auction house\u2019s Summer\u00a0Platinum Night Sports Auction, which ran from\u00a0Aug. 27 to Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p>It was first purchased by an individual named\u00a0Anthony Giordano in 1991 from a hobby pioneer,\u00a0Sports Collectors Digest <a href=\"https:\/\/sportscollectorsdigest.com\/news\/topps-1952-mickey-mantle-owner-anthony-giordano-heritage-auctions\">reports.<\/a>\u00a0Mantle had been Giordano\u2019s\u00a0favorite baseball player growing up in New York City. He purchased the card for\u00a0$50,000 and kept it stashed safely for three decades before deciding to put it up for auction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn eight-figure auction result in the sports market was the stuff of fantasy just a decade ago,\u201d says Chris Ivy, director of Sports Auctions at Heritage. \u201cWe always knew this card would shatter records and expectations. But that doesn\u2019t make it any less of a thrill to be part of an auction during which a single item breaks the eight-figure threshold for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cA True Miracle\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>The card was in mint condition making it more valuable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt bears the finest qualities any 1952 Topps can possess: perfect centering, registration, and four sharp corners,\u201d Ivy said. \u201cThat this Mantle rookie card remained in this condition for 70 years is a true miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mantle spent his entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mantlmi01.shtml\">17-year career<\/a> playing for the New York Yankees, from 1951 to 1968, and was a seven-time World Series champion.\u00a0He was\u00a0inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974, and died\u00a0in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking card was produced by U.S. manufacturer and cardmaker Topps.<\/p>\n<p>The card has generated so much interest that\u00a0Emmy Award-winning director Dan Klein is working on a documentary about it, with the working title set as \u201cFour Perfect Corners,\u201d\u00a0Heritage Auctions<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.ha.com\/itm\/baseball-cards\/singles-1950-1959-\/1952-topps-mickey-mantle-311-sgc-mint-95-1985-rosen-find-finest-known-example-\/a\/50058-53014.s\"> said.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s record-breaking auction sale comes as the\u00a0sports memorabilia market is booming.<\/p>\n<p>A July <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2022\/07\/06\/2474654\/0\/en\/26-1-Billion-Sports-Memorabilia-Market-to-Climb-200-Billion-Mark-by-2032-Market-Decipher.html\">report<\/a> by the market research and consultancy firm Market Decipher calculated the size of the sports memorabilia market at $26 billion in 2021, and researchers forecast that it will reach $227.2 billion by 2032.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that a string of factors, such as the\u00a0increasing wealth of baby boomers, more\u00a0millennials in the market, and the rising interest from foreign buyers, has pushed prices further in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic,\u00a0the sports memorabilia market was estimated at more than $5.4 billion, according to a 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidseideman\/2018\/09\/19\/tech-entrepreneur-determines-first-true-estimate-of-sports-memorabilia-market-5-4-billion\/\">Forbes interview<\/a> with David Yoken, the founder of Collectable.com.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-katabella-roberts\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Katabella Roberts is a news writer for The Epoch Times, focusing primarily on the United States, world, and business news.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baseball card sold for more than\u00a0$12 million at auction, making it both the most valuable sports card and 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