Baseball card collecting is one of the most favorite trading card collecting hobbies out there. There is an opportunity to find rare cards that can be worth a lot of money and that are unique. There are some cards that have sold for millions of dollars and been found in the strangest of places. The rarer the card, the more expensive it is. Below are some of the rarest baseball cards in the world.
Sporting News Babe Ruth Rookie Card
Babe Ruth is known as the greatest player in baseball history. Anything that has him on it is extremely valuable and a sought-after collectible. A mint condition Sporting News Babe Ruth Rookie Card that has a PSA Grade 8 is worth $1.35 million. There have been cards that are in poor condition that have sold for $20,000 at auctions. There have been people that have paid more than that as this card is very rare and rarely goes up for sale. In 2019, this card was found in a piano with other vintage baseball cards.
T206 Joe Doyle N.Y. NAT’L
The T206 Joe Doyle N.Y. NAT’L error card is the absolute rarest card to find. There were only ten known cards to be printed. This is because it is rare because it lists the N.Y. NAT’L after his name. He played for the Highlanders and not the Giants. The mistake was caught early, so no one knows the exact number that was printed. They were found in the 1980s by Larry Fritsch, a collector, and dealer. There was one card in this series that had an ad for the cigarette company known as Piedmont. This is the only one of its kind and is very valuable today.
Topps #311 Mickey Mantle
The Mickey Mantle card is known to be the most iconic card that you can have in the hobby. T his card is not Mickey Mantle’s rookie card but is the most popular and important card. The reason for this is because of several different reasons. In 1952, Topps had just started making sports card, and they were not many of each card printed. In 2018, one of these cards sold for $2.88 million dollars. Another reason why these cards are hard to get is because, in the early 1960s, the owner of the Topps’ cards dumped the first run cards into the sea because they did not have enough room to store them.
T206 Sherry Magee (Magie)
This card is one of the rarest cards in the history of card collecting. The reason why this card is famous is because Magee’s last name was misspelled. While the error was caught early, there were still some of these made. It is thought that there are around 175 in existence today. Even the poorest condition T206 cards will for thousands of dollars. One of the high-quality cards went for $660,000.
T206 Eddie Plank
The T206 Eddie Plank c is one of the most popular and sought-after cards in collecting history. There were only a few Eddie Plank cards that were made, and no one knows the real reason. It is thought that Plank wanted to be paid more or that he did not like the fact that cigarettes were featured on the card. He was one of the popular baseball players to not do tobacco and spoke out against it. Another thing that affected the cards was that the printing was messed up, and many of the cards were destroyed because of imperfections.
American Carmel Joe Jackson
Shoeless Joe was a very popular player and a scandalous one. He was thought to be associated with the Black Sox Scandal that had the 1919 Chicago White Sox trying to fix up the World Series. Due to his career being cut short, not many cards were made. The American Carmel Joe Jackson rookie card has only ninety cards available today. One of these cards sold for over $667,000.
T206 Honus Wagner
The T206 Honus Wagner is one of the rarest cards and the most requested cards. There were only around fifty to two hundred cards that were printed. These cards rarely go up for sale. In 2016, one card sold for $3.2 million, and that made it the most valuable baseball card ever. It is not known why so few of these cards were made. Some people think that it was because the cards were marketed towards children and featured cigarettes and that he wanted more money.
T206 Ty Cobb Back
Ty Cobb, also known as the Georgia Peach, is known as one of the best baseball players that ever lived. His cards and memorabilia are some of the most sought-after collectibles in baseball history. His cards range in value in rarity, with the T206 Ty Cobb Back being the most valuable and the hardest to find. In 2016, a family discovered seven of these cards that were almost thrown out. These cards sold for $3 million. The family later found another card but decided to keep it to remind them of what they had found.
Finding any of these cards would be a baseball card collector’s dream. While rare, there are some of these cards out in the market today. If you want to own one, the most popular way to do it is to look at some of the baseball auctions out there. However, be prepared to pay a good deal of money for most of these cards.
