Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio is the new owner of the most valuable sports ticket ever sold at auction.
Heritage Auctions says the Southern California resident purchased the stub to Robinson’s April 15, 1947 debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. One of only seven known copies, the stub sold for $480,000, the most ever paid for a sports ticket on the collectors market.
In all, the auction netted over $25.5 million over two nights. Heritage says over 70 records were set with nearly 2,600 bidders participating.
Tickets to the debuts of Robinson and Michael Jordan ($468,000) led a group of 72 tickets in the auction. One of six known surviving examples from Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939, sold for $108,000 to become both the most expensive Gehrig ticket and most valuable pre-War ticket ever sold.
Together, the 72 tickets realized $2.1 million, twice the combined pre-sale estimate.
A full ticket to the 1996 Greater Milwaukee Open, where Tiger Woods made his debut, sold for $99,000. That’s the highest-graded example, at PSA Mint 9, and now the world’s most valuable Woods ticket. It originally cost $25.
A Ted Williams autographed game bat from his 1947 Triple Crown season now holds the record for the most expensive Williams bat ever sold at auction: $336,000.
The first Tom Brady Super Bowl touchdown pass football ever to reach the auction market–one signed by the recipient, tight end Rob Gronkowski after the loss to the Eagles a few years ago–went for $69,000.
Some of the other new records set: A 1912 E300 Plow’s Candy Honus Wagner card, graded PSA NM 7 sold for $312,000. That’s the highest price ever realized for a card from the so-called “Miracle Set” from which there are only 175 known survivors. From that same set, a Ty Cobb card graded PSA NM 7 sold for $222,000, a record for that rarity.
A 1954 Stahl-Meyer Franks Mickey Mantle, PSA NM-MT 8, sold for $210,000, setting a record for that little-known set.
For more results from Heritage Auctions’ Feb. 26-27 Winter Platinum Night Sports Auction, click here.
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