The Mickey Mantle card is especially valuable because it’s so well-preserved. The card was graded “Mint+ 9.5” by the Sportscard Guaranty Corporation, according to Heritage Auctions.

A rare Mickey Mantle card was sold for a record-breaking $5.2 million, the highest price ever for a baseball card, broker PWCC Marketplace announced Thursday.

Mickey Mantle is back in the record books. A 1952 Mantle baseball card became the highest-priced sports card ever, selling for $5.2 million, PWCC Marketplace announced Thursday. The Topps card, rat… ...

A Mickey Mantle baseball card entered a league of its own on Sunday. The mint Mantle card from 1952 was sold at auction for $12.6 million, making it the most ever paid for sports memorabilia ...

Mantle — who spent his entire career with the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968, where he was a seven-time World Series champion — died in 1995. He participated in Ken Burns ' 1994 iconic ...

Call this record-setting sale of an ultra-rare Mickey Mantle baseball card a grand slam. Film actor Rob Gough purchased the prized card, released by Topps in 1952, for a whopping $5.2 million, maki… ...

The $2.88 million price shattered the previous auction rec­ord for a post-World War II card — also a 1952 Mantle card sold more than a decade ago — by $2.6 million, according to Heritage.

Mantle's 1952 Topps card was graded by Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) as a 9 on a scale of 10 and is one of only six in existence. It's captured the attention of serious collectors in ...

In 1988, the baseball card was worth only $3,300. A 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card in mint condition has sold for $2.88 million -- making it the second-highest price ever paid for a baseball ...