{"id":58955,"date":"2022-08-28T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mickey-mantle-sold-for-record-12-6-million\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T17:37:10","slug":"mickey-mantle-sold-for-record-12-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mickey-mantle-sold-for-record-12-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Mantle sold for record $12.6 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This one&#8217;s outta here! <\/p>\n<p>A Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for a record-smashing $12.6 million Sunday, the highest price ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p>The 1952 Mantle rookie card, which was in mint condition and received an astounding 9.5 grade from grader SGC, was last sold in 1991 for $50,000 by the famed baseball-card collector Alan Rosen.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>In a letter to the buyer accompanying the sale, Rosen wrote that the card was \u201cin my estimation the finest known example in the world,\u201d noting its perfect centering and color, with only the \u201cslightest evidence of paper toning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The auction house had predicted the card would fetch more than $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Ivy, Heritage&#8217;s director of sports auctions, wrote in a July statement that the piece of memorabilia&#8217;s exceptional SGC grade, \u201cplus the fact it has documented provenance from the most storied find in hobby, puts this card in a category of its own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe card more than lives up to Rosen&#8217;s claim when viewed in person,\u201d Ivy said.<\/p>\n<p>Mantle, who died in 1995, was a switch-hitter with the New York Yankees for all of his 18-year career.  He helped the Bronx Bombers win seven World Series titles and was a three-time American League MVP, making it to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. <\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking price for the Mantle card comes amid a burning-hot market for sports collectibles, with everything from soccer jersey to sports cards scoring sky-high prices.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The previous record for the highest price paid for a baseball card was set earlier this month by a 1909 Honus Wagner card, which sold for $7.25 million in a private sale. <\/p>\n<p>Just last month, the championship belt that Muhammad Ali won in his 1974 \u201cRumble in the Jungle\u201d heavyweight title fight garnered almost $6.2 million at auction, and the jersey worn by Diego Maradona when he scored his infamous \u201cHand of God\u201d goal at the 1986 World Cup fetched $9.3 million in May. <\/p>\n<p>Ivy attributed the renewed interest in sports-memorabilia market to the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s only so much Netflix and &#8216;Tiger King&#8217; people could watch,\u201d he said, referring to the streaming service&#8217;s reality series about a convicted former zookeeper.  \u201cSo, you know, they were getting back into hobbies, and clearly sports collecting was a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a 2018 interview with Forbes, David Yoken, founder of Collectable.com, estimated the sports collectibles market was valued at $5.4 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The research firm Market Decipher said that by 2021, the market&#8217;s value had swelled to $26 billion and could soar to an eye-popping $227 billion within a decade, in part due to the popularity of NFTs, or digital assets known as non-fungible tokens . <\/p>\n<p><em>With Post Wires<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s outta here! A Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for a record-smashing $12.6 million Sunday, the highest price ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia. The 1952 Mantle rookie card, which was in mint condition and received an astounding 9.5 grade from grader SGC, was last sold in 1991 for $50,000 by the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mickey-mantle-sold-for-record-12-6-million\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mickey Mantle sold for record $12.6 million<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[8499,20103,109,21700,46,307],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58963,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-most-expensive-baseball-card-in-history-just-sold-for-12-6-million\/","url_meta":{"origin":58955,"position":0},"title":"The most expensive baseball card in history just sold for $12.6 million","date":"August 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A Mickey Mantle baseball card from 1952 sold for a jaw-dropping $12,600,000 early Sunday morning, according to a news release from Heritage Auctions shared with CNN. 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