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4. 1933 Babe Ruth Goudey Sport Kings #2. Sale price: $1.2 million. Babe Ruth is an undeniable and unforgettable legend. This card, though, is a life-changer.
The two priciest cards are baseball cards, followed by three basketball cards. The first sports card to sell for one million dollars was a T206 Honus Wagner which went for $1,265,000 at auction in 2000 (equivalent to $2,238,133 in 2023). [1]
The T206 Wagner is the most valuable baseball card in existence, and even damaged examples are valued at $100,000 or more. [1] This is in part because of Wagner's place among baseball's immortals, as he was an original Hall of Fame inductee. More importantly, it is one of the scarcest cards from the most prominent of all vintage card sets.
The typical card in the T206 series had a width of 1 + 7 ⁄ 16 inches (3.65 cm) and a height of 2 + 5 ⁄ 8 inches (6.67 cm). [11] Some cards were awkwardly shaped or irregularly sized, which prompted a belief that many of the cards in the series had been altered at one point or another.
Mike Cramer, the founder of Pacific Trading Cards, began collecting baseball cards at nine years old. [1] His first card was a Babe Ruth card from a nickel pack of Fleer 1960 All-Time Greats cards. [1] He began selling soda bottles and mowing lawns so that he could buy more cards, collecting over 11,000 cards by the time he was eleven years old ...
By then, Bowman was competing against Leaf Candy Company, which left the marketplace in 1950; [9] that year Bowman sales of baseball cards alone was $1 million. [1] For a few years, Bowman was the leading producer of baseball cards, but was soon overtaken by rival company Topps Chewing Gum. Bowman produced baseball cards until 1955. [3]