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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