A baseball card featuring Hall of Fame shortstop Honus Wagner was sold for a record $7.25 million in a private sale Wednesday, according to the sports memorabilia company Goldin.
Wednesday’s sale breaks the record set in 2021, when a different T-206 Honus Wagner was sold for $6.6 million. The most expensive sale of a non-Wagner card also came last year, when a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card was sold for $5.2 million.
“I’ve been in this business for a very long time and seen a lot of incredible trading cards and pieces of memorabilia, but there is nothing on earth like a T-206 card,” Goldin Executive Chairman and founder Ken Goldin said in a statement. “The card is art, it’s history, it’s folklore. The T-206 is one of the reasons I do what I do and why serious collectors around the world love this hobby so much. To be a part of history and facilitate this record-breaking sale is an honor.”
