A baseball card sold for more than $12 million at auction, making it both the most valuable sports card and the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold at auction.
The Mickey Mantle baseball card from 1952 was graded a Mint+ 9.5 by Sportscard Guaranty Corporation, and was sold by Heritage Auctions for $12.6 million at 12:28 a.m. CST, on Aug. 28, according to a press release from the Dallas, Texas-based auction house.
Its sale price far outweighs the previous record for a baseball card set by the T206 Honus Wagner, which sold for $6.6 million last year.
It also far surpasses the record for any item of sports memorabilia, which was previously set with the $9.3 million sale of Diego Maradona’s famous “Hand of God” jersey earlier this year….