{"id":471844,"date":"2023-12-04T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=471844"},"modified":"2023-12-04T10:20:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:20:22","slug":"babe-ruths-rookie-card-sells-for-7-2-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/babe-ruths-rookie-card-sells-for-7-2-million-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Babe Ruth&#8217;s rookie card sells for 7.2 million dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth rookie card was auctioned for 7.2M dollars, including the customer&#8217;s premium today, the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> highest sum ever paid for a sports card as the record is 7.25 million dollars for a T206 Sweet Caporal Honus Wagner card that was sold last year.<\/p>\n<p>That was the most expensive Babe&#8217;s item ever.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Winning bid for the 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/REAOnline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@REAOnline<\/a> auction is $7.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The card was a FREE NEWSPAPER INSERT originally saved by paperboy Archie Davis. The paper cost ONE CENT. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XJQPRNvMkR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XJQPRNvMkR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/darrenrovell\/status\/1731644132383244742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The condition of the card was excellent; the fact that it was in the hands of the museum for the past 20+ years helped keep it in the condition that it&#8217;s in,&#8221; shared Brian Dwyer, president of Robert Edward Auctions, who did the auction. &#8220;It&#8217;s 1 of only 10 that we know are out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For information, there are 32 T206 Sweet Caporal Honus Wagners, which is the most expensive of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth rookie card was auctioned for 7.2M dollars, including the customer&#8217;s premium today, the 3rd highest sum ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":471845,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17863],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[22253,12402],"acf":{"announce":"His 1914 Baltimore rookie card nets 7.2 million dollars.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471847,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/471844\/revisions\/471847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471844"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=471844"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=471844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}