Rare Mickey Mantle Card Expected To Break Records At Auction
July 25, 2022 10:36AM PDT
Chris Ivy displays a Mickey Mantle baseball card at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Thursday, July 21, 2022. The mint-condition Mantle card is expected to sell well into the millions when bidding ends at the end of the month. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
NEW YORK (AP) – A mint condition 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card could break records at auction.
The auction house estimates it could exceed $10 million.
The card’s current owner is a New Jersey waste management entrepreneur who bought the rare card for $50,000 in 1991 at a New York City card show.
Pre-bidding has started and the auction ends Aug. 27.
The record for a baseball card is $6.6 million, which was for a 1909 Honus Wagner card that was sold at auction a year ago.
Another Mantle card from 1952 went for $5.2 million last year.
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