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You are here: Home / Business/Industry News / Sports Memorabilia Industry News / Michael Jordan College Jersey Sets Record Price in Heritage Auction

Michael Jordan College Jersey Sets Record Price in Heritage Auction

May 9, 2021 By Bob D'Angelo

Sports memorabilia prices continue to soar like Michael Jordan executing one of his classic dunks. That is only fitting, since a Jordan game-worn jersey from his 1982-83 season at the University of North Carolina just fetched a record price.

Jordan’s No. 23 Carolina blue jersey, photo-matched to his Player of the Year season with the Tarheels, sold for $1,380,000 during the second night of Heritage Auctions’ Spring Sports Catalog Auction.  It’s the most ever paid for a Jordan jersey, even those worn during his championship days with the Chicago Bulls.

The previous high price paid for a Jordan jersey was $480,000, sold last October in a Heritage Auctions sale. That MJ jersey was a Bulls jersey from the 1986-87 season.

“Over the last year Heritage has set dozens of world records in the red-hot Michael Jordan collectibles market, and now we’re extremely proud to have shattered the records for a Jordan game-worn jersey,” Chris Ivy, Heritage’s director of Sports Auctions, said in a statement. “As the final price tag proves, this jersey has everything any serious collector could possibly want.”

The jersey originally sold in 1999 for a then-record price of $63,500.  It is the one Jordan was wearing when he was featured on the cover of The Sporting News as the NCAA player of the year, and also used during a North Carolina-Stanford game during the Stanford Invitational in 1983.  That’s when one of Stanford’s team managers acquired it in a trade.

The only known Michael Jordan game-worn North Carolina Tar Heels basketball jersey sold for $1.38 million on Saturday with Heritage Auctions. Via @espn https://t.co/dzE5ZtVi98 #MichaelJordan

— Heritage Auctions (@HeritageAuction) May 8, 2021

Jordan items seem to grab most of the limelight, but there were some other big-ticket items during the Heritage Auctions sale.  Over 40 lots in the three-day event sold for over $100,000.

A 1909-11 T206 Honus Wagner card, graded PSA 1.5, netted $2,280,000 in Session 1 early Saturday, establishing a new high mark for any graded below a 3.

The second highest selling item in the auction was one of the modern card hobby’s hottest issues–a 2000 Playoff Contenders Tom Brady Championship Ticket.  Numbered 34/100 and graded 8.5 by BGS with a 10 autograph grade, it went for nearly $1.6 million. 

The auction included dozens of the hobby’s top vintage cards, including a pair of 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle rookies.  One graded 9 by SCG, pulled in $690,000. The other card, graded PSA 8.5, landed at $528,000.

A 1952 Topps PSA 9 card of Jackie Robinson fetched $960,000, the second of its kind to narrowly miss the seven-figure mark at auction.

 

Robinson’s teammate in Brooklyn, Sandy Koufax, made his major league baseball card debut in the 1955 Topps set.  An SGC 9 rookie card of the left-handed pitching legend, who struggled in Brooklyn but excelled when the franchise moved to Los Angeles, sold for $222,000.

Ty Cobb cards are enjoying a renaissance and are commanding higher prices every month. A 1910-11 M116 Sporting Life of the Georgia Peach that was a PSA 9 sold for $264,000.

A more recent Yankees legend, Derek Jeter, had a six-figure winner with an unusual lot. Offered for sale was a complete, 42-card rookie collection of The Captain — all graded PSA 10 — along with an uncut sheet and 1992 Little Sun cards. The lot was sold for $444,000.

The lone 1948 Leaf rookie card Warren Spahn graded at PSA 10 soared to a record $252,000. Heritage had sold the same card for $192,000 in 2018.

Soccer was represented by a 1958 Alifabolaget rookie card of Pele, which graded out at PSA 8.5. The winning bid was $372,000.

 

The biggest Yankees legend, Babe Ruth, was featured on a 1933 Sport Kings card that graded at PSA 8. It sold for a record $210,000.  Heritage had sold another 8 for $114,000 just four months ago and early last year, another sold for just over $50,000.

The Great One, Wayne Gretzky, pulled in $240,000 with a 1979 O-Pee-Chee rookie card that ad a PSA 9 grade. Basketball was represented by a 1957 Topps rookie card of Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, which graded PSA 8 and sold for $192,000.

The seventh best 1967 Topps baseball set on PSA’s Registry was the top selling vintage complete set in the auction, bringing in $174,000.

One card that didn’t sell was a PSA 7 Babe Ruth rookie card. The 1916 M101-5 Sporting News card with a blank back did not meet the $3 million reserve, but prospective buyers can snag the Bambino card for $3.6 million in a post-auction sale.

 

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About Bob D'Angelo

Bob has been a sportswriter and copy editor for more than 35 years and a blogger for a decade. He is celebrating his 50th year of card collecting, and still counts his 1965 Topps Mickey Mantle as his favorite. You can reach him at [email protected].

Filed Under: Sports Memorabilia Industry News Tagged With: 1952 Topps Jackie Robinson, 2000 Playoff Contenders Tom Brady, Derek Jeter rookie cards, Heritage Auctions May 2021, Michael Jordan jersey, t206 honus wagner

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