<p style="font-weight: 400;">A pristine Mickey Mantle baseball card from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/derek-jeter-enters-the-baseball-hall-of-fame" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yankee Hall of Famer</a>’s rookie season fetched a whopping $12.6 million at auction, shattering the prior record for any piece of sports memorabilia.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The 1952 Topps card, graded a 9.5 for condition, is the &#8220;finest known example&#8221; of the slugger’s first-season card. Mantle, who hit 536 home runs over his 18-year career, has long been a favorite of collectors. The anonymous buyer purchased the card Saturday at a memorabilia sale by Heritage Auctions.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;This card is arguably the finest-condition example of the most iconic post-war card in the world,&#8221; Chris Ivy, Heritage&#8217;s director of sports auctions, said in a statement. &#8220;That grade, plus the fact it has documented provenance from the most storied find in hobby history, puts this card in a category of its own.&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_429974" style="width: 386px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429974" class="wp-image-429974 size-full" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-8.28.21-AM.png" alt="The 1952 baseball card is the most pristine known example of the iconic card." width="376" height="570" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-8.28.21-AM.png 376w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-8.28.21-AM-198x300.png 198w" sizes=" (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px" /><p id="caption-attachment-429974" class="wp-caption-text">The 1952 baseball card is the most pristine example of the iconic card. (Courtesy of Heritage Auctions)</p></div>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The previous record price paid for a baseball card was $7.25 million, set earlier this month by the sale of a T206 Honus Wagner card. The Wagner card, put out from 1909-1911 by the American Tobacco Company, is especially rare because the Pittsburgh Pirates great demanded it be pulled over his objection to smoking. Another Wagner T206 sold a year ago for $6.606 million.</p>
<div id="attachment_429977" style="width: 248px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-429977" class="wp-image-429977 size-full" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-8.45.52-AM.png" alt="The previous record was set by the sale of this baseball card of Hall of Famer Honus Wagner." width="238" height="462" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-8.45.52-AM.png 238w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-28-at-8.45.52-AM-155x300.png 155w" sizes=" (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /><p id="caption-attachment-429977" class="wp-caption-text">The previous record was set by the sale of this baseball card of Hall of Famer Honus Wagner. (Jefferson Burdick Collection)</p></div>
<p>A 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card graded at 9 sold for $5.2 million earlier this year.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The provenance of the record-setting Mantle card is the stuff of legends. Well-known collector Alan Rosen <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34473632/1952-topps-mickey-mantle-card-sells-126-million-shattering-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> got a call in 1986 from a Boston-area forklift operator who told him a pal, Ted Lodge, had inherited it from his late father and wanted to sell it. Lodge&#8217;s father had worked as a truck driver for Topps and had saved several boxed sets of the entire 1952 series.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Rosen hired a police officer and drove to Quincy, Massachusetts, with $125,000 in cash to pay for 5,500 1952 Topps cards, including dozens of Mantles. In 1991, Rosen sold one of the Mantle cards for $50,000 to a buyer who remained anonymous for 31 years.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">That buyer, Anthony Giordano, rejected several private, multimillion-dollar offers until his sons persuaded him to have the card graded put under the hammer.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In the same auction, Heritage sold an autographed Hillerich &amp; Bradsby bat used by Babe Ruth sometime around 1920 for $1.68 million.</p>

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