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Kate Feldman

Mickey Mantle baseball card sells for record $12.6 million

Yankees legend Mickey Mantle is still breaking records.

A mint-condition 1952 trading card of the pinstriped slugger sold Saturday for a record $12.6 million, the highest price ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia.

"(We’d) proclaim that this trading card represents the quintessence of every metric that has historically been used to measure value in the collectibles marketplace,” reads the description from Heritage Auctions.

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