Rare Mickey Mantle Baseball Card On Auction For How Much??

Rare Mickey Mantle Baseball Card Could Sell for $10 Million–

The mint-condition copy could become one of the most expensive baseball cards ever sold at auction.

The auction ends August 27th.

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A rare Mickey Mantle baseball card is up for auction and could fetch more than $10 million when bidding closes later this month.

The card, created in 1952 by the baseball card manufacturer Topps, is in near-perfect condition. It’s also incredibly rare, one of just a handful of cards still in such good shape. In its listing, Heritage Auctions calls the card “a spectacular long-shot miracle of the collectible marketplace.”

The auction ends August 27, but already buyers have driven up the card’s price to $6.5 million. When all is said and done, Heritage Auctions expects the card to go for $10 million or more, a figure that would far surpass the record-holding 1909 Honus Wagner card that sold for $6.6 million in August 2021.

For the uninitiated, Mantle—also known as “the Mick”—was an iconic American professional baseball player who spent his entire 18-year career with the New York Yankees. A switch-hitter, he helped the Yankees win seven World Series titles. Mantle was an American League MVP three times, and the National Baseball Hall of Fame inducted him into its ranks in 1974.

Mantle died in 1995, but his reputation as one of the best in the business lives on to this day. Collectors also continue to covet Mantle’s baseball cards, particularly those in mint condition, like the one being auctioned off now. Authenticators gave the card a grade of “Mint 9.5” out of 10 for its four sharp corners, glossy finish and rich colors.

Owner Anthony Giordano, a 75-year-old New Jersey waste management executive, bought the card in 1991 when his son, then 15, saw it at a show at Madison Square Garden. The price: $50,000. Read more from Smithsonian.

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