Chris Ivy: Last News

baseball card was sold for £10.8million, surpassing Maradona’s Argentina shirt donned during his team’s 2-0 win over England at the 1986 World Cup. The iconic shirt, worn when Maradona scored the ‘Hand of God’ goal, was sold for £7.1m at Sotheby’s in London.A century-old ’T206’ Honus Wagner card sold this month for £6.2m held the previous record for a sports card.

wrote that the card was “in my estimation the finest known example in the world,” noting its perfect centering and color, with only the “slightest evidence of paper toning.”The auction house had predicted the card would fetch more than $10 million.Chris Ivy, Heritage’s director of sports auctions, wrote in a July statement that the piece of memorabilia’s exceptional SGC grade, “plus the fact it has documented provenance from the most storied find in hobby history, puts this card in a category of its own.“The card more than lives up to Rosen’s claim when viewed in person,” Ivy said.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.

Wayne Gretzky‘s rookie card from O-Pee-Chee just broke a huge record as it sold for over $1 million dollars in a private auction.