A 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth rookie card sold for $7.2 million just after midnight Monday, the third-highest sum ever paid for a sports card.
The sale price was just shy of the $7.25 million paid for a T206 Sweet Caporal Honus Wagner card in August 2022.
The card had been distributed in daily papers.
\"Overall, the card was pretty well preserved; the fact that it was in the hands of the museum for the last twenty-plus years helped keep it in the condition that it\'s in,\" said Brian Dwyer, president of Robert Edward Auctions, who brokered the sale. \"It\'s one of only ten that we know to exist.\"
It\'s the most expensive Ruth item of all time.