Baseball trading cards ranked by sale price at auction in millions of USD. A Honus Wagner T206 card in PSA VG-EX 4 condition sold for $7.25 million at Heritage Auctions in 2022, making it the most expensive baseball card ever sold. The T206...
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Baseball trading cards ranked by sale price at auction in millions of USD. A Honus Wagner T206 card in PSA VG-EX 4 condition sold for $7.25 million at Heritage Auctions in 2022, making it the most expensive baseball card ever sold. The T206 Wagner is the most famous card in existence — printed around 1909, Wagner demanded its withdrawal from production, leaving perhaps 50 to 200 examples in various conditions, each worth extraordinary sums and making it the definitive blue-chip asset of the sports card collecting world.
Key Findings
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Mickey Mantle 1952 Topps RC (PSA 9) leads with 13 in 2022.
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Average value in 2022: 7 · median: 7.
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2022 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2022: Mickey Mantle 1952 Topps RC (PSA 9) is 11.7× larger than Ted Williams 1939 Play Ball RC (PSA 10).
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Data Points
8
8 categories
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3 years
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Top Value
13
Mickey Mantle 1952 Topps RC (PSA 9)
Auction Price (Million USD) · 2022
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Metrics
1
Auction Price (Million USD)
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Period
2020 – 2022
3 years of data
Category Rankings
Ranked by 2022 value · vs. 2020| # | Category | 2022 | 2020 | Change |
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| 🥇 | Mickey Mantle 1952 Topps RC (PSA 9) | 13 | — | — |
| 🥈 | Babe Ruth 1916 Sporting News (PSA 8) | 7 | — | — |
| 🥉 | Honus Wagner T206 (1909, PSA 5) | 7 | — | — |
| 4 | Ted Williams 1939 Play Ball RC (PSA 10) | 1 | — | — |
Statistical Summary — 2022
13
Maximum
1
Minimum
7
Average
7
Median
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