An extremely featuring a 19-year-old has sold for $7.2 million at auction - the third-highest sum in trading card history trailing only the famed 1952 Mickey Mantle ($12.6m) and 1909 Honus Wagner ($7.25m).
Now the most expensive Ruth collectible ever, the 1914 card was printed by the Baltimore News when he was still a local phenomenon. At the time, the budding baseball legend was still playing for his hometown Orioles, a minor league team with no connection to the current Major League club of the same name.
Robert Edward Auctions, which sold the card, originally estimated it could fetch as much as $10 million. Only ten copies of the card have survived, and its mere existence wasn't known publicly until the 1980s. Since its discovery, copies of the card have jumped in price from $6,600 to $18,700 in 1991 and to nearly $80,000 in 1999, according to REA.
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