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An outfielder for the Los Angeles Angels, Trout has won three American League MVP awards and has finished in the top four in voting four other times. As for other limited items of modern-day stars, Goldin said a rookie card of James that also is one of one would sell for at least $2 million, and his company expects to get at least $1.5 million at its next auction for a 1/1 rookie card of another NBA superstar, Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo.

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Wagner, whose career ended in 1917, has long since been regarded as one of the greatest baseball players ever, and while Trout is on track for that kind of acclaim, he is just 29 and figures to play for another decade.

“You know, ‘You could have bought a house,’ ‘You could have bought this and that,’ that I’m stupid and it’s a piece of cardboard.”, Oancea echoed Goldin in saying supply and demand informed his 2018 purchase. View cart for details. Now what? There’s a Honus Wagner 75 times rarer than the 1910 tobacco card that sold for $3.1 million one year ago. Cobb, who rarely complimented anyone, considered Wagner “the greatest ballplayer that ever lived.” Yet more than 40 years would pass after his death before any biographer seriously went to bat with his life.

Despite terribly bowed legs and freakishly large hands, he patrolled the shortstop slot with remarkable dexterity; he may not have been as acrobatic as Ozzie Smith, but no shortstop was steadier defensively.

The previous record was set in 2016, when a rare Honus Wagner T206 card produced between 1909 and 1911 sold for $3.12 million. Most of the big-money buyers at sports memorabilia auctions are in their late 20s to early 40s, and “they want to buy cards of the players that they are watching today, or that they watched as a kid,” said Ken Goldin, founder and CEO of Goldin Auctions, which has had a hand in some of the most expensive sales this year.

Though the market rebounded quickly, he claimed that wealthy individuals have taken some of their money out of the market and are looking into other investments outside the usual sectors. This is the back of a baseball card featuring Stephen King. The Wagner card is thought to have been made in lesser quantities than those of contemporary baseball stars, with some accounts indicating the Pittsburgh Pirates legend, 10th all-time in WAR, did not want children to become interested in the tobacco products the cards were used to promote. #69: 1915 American Caramel E106 Honus Wagner (Throwing) Estimated PSA 9 Mint Value: $100,000.