Babe Ruth wasn’t cast as a leadoff hitter during his playing days, but he’s taking on that role in Memory Lane’s upcoming Summer Rarities Auction. The catalog opens with a stunning collection of no less than 87 lots of rare and high-grade cards that span virtually his entire career. It may well be the largest variety of Ruth cards ever offered in a single auction. The … [Read more...] about Dozens of Rare, High-Grade Babe Ruth Cards to Headline Memory Lane’s Summer Auction
1932 US Caramel
REA Spring Auction: 98,000 Bids, $14.7 Million
Robert Edward Auctions closed out its Spring Catalog Auction on Sunday night with multiple six-figure sales, most notably a 1955 Topps Roberto Clemente rookie graded PSA 9 that sold for $960,000. A Sandy Koufax rookie from the same set, also graded PSA 9, sold for $384,000, one bid shy of becoming the highest-selling Topps Koufax rookie of all-time. Jackie Robinson’s … [Read more...] about REA Spring Auction: 98,000 Bids, $14.7 Million
Program from First World Series Among Record Setters in $6.7 Million Memory Lane Auction
A scored program from the first game of the first modern World Series in 1903 sold for a record $171,484 early Sunday in Memory Lane’s Winter Rarities Auction. One of only a small number of known surviving examples from the entire series, the program’s original owner chronicled the 7-3 Pittsburgh Pirates victory over Cy Young and the Boston Americans at the Huntington Avenue … [Read more...] about Program from First World Series Among Record Setters in $6.7 Million Memory Lane Auction
Heritage Card Auction Sales Total $8.8 Million
One of the three 1915 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson cards graded 9 by PSA sold for a record-setting $504,000 in Heritage Auctions' Spring Trading Card sale late last week. Heritage had sold another for $432,000 in 2017. That wasn't the only six-figure card in the auction, though. Seven lots hit that mark in all. Seventeen cards sold for $50,000 or more during the … [Read more...] about Heritage Card Auction Sales Total $8.8 Million
Stellar Collection of U.S. Caramel Cards Coming to Auction
While kids were digging the new bubble gum cards from Goudey, Boston-based U.S. Caramel was competing with its neighbors for kids' pennies. The company produced a 32-card set of sports stars that was distributed with its products. Later this month, a nearly complete grouping of the best known examples from the 1932 U.S. Caramel set will hit the auction … [Read more...] about Stellar Collection of U.S. Caramel Cards Coming to Auction
Value of The Top 20 Baseball Cards in 1989 Will Have You Drooling
If you had money to invest 30 years ago, you could have put it in any number of places, depending on your willingness to take on a risk or two. The stock market. Real estate. Precious metals. You may have been the subject of much derision if you had opted to put at least some of it in baseball cards, but it wouldn’t have been a bad idea, as long as it wasn't 1989 … [Read more...] about Value of The Top 20 Baseball Cards in 1989 Will Have You Drooling
Rare Weil Baking Babe Ruth Card Brings Big Price
One of a small number of 1916 Babe Ruth rookie cards with Weil Baking Company advertising on the back topped the sales list in Memory Lane Inc.’s recently completed I Own It Now catalog. One of the rarest variations of the familiar Ruth card issued through numerous sponsors 100 years ago, the EX graded example sold within minutes of the sale’s opening last week for a price … [Read more...] about Rare Weil Baking Babe Ruth Card Brings Big Price
Hottest Babe Ruth Cards for Sale on eBay
Babe Ruth's big league debut on July 11, 1914 came just after what is now the rarest, perhaps most sought after baseball card ever made: the 1914 Baltimore News Ruth promo card, which pictures him in the final days of his minor league career. You won't find it among the hottest Babe Ruth cards for sale on eBay. Most of the time, on the rare occasions … [Read more...] about Hottest Babe Ruth Cards for Sale on eBay
Pre-War Rarities Top Goodwin Auction
It was a case of "the older the better" early Saturday morning as Goodwin & Company's latest Masterpieces and Uncommon Common auction came to a close. Numerous cards dating back 100 years or more brought the biggest prices including a rare 19th century cabinet card and a possibly one-of-a-kind version of a 1910 Ty Cobb issue. At the top of the bidding for the St. … [Read more...] about Pre-War Rarities Top Goodwin Auction