A Mickey Mantle baseball card is displayed at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, earlier this summer. A mint condition Mantle card has sold for $12.6 million, blasting into the record books.

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 mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million Sunday, blasting into the record books as the most ever paid for sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially ...

A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card became the most valuable piece of sports memorabilia to be sold at auction, notching $12.6 million early Sunday morning.

NEW YORK — A mint-condition Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million on Sunday, the most money ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more ...

A decades-old, mint-condition Mickey Mantle baseball card could break a record at auction. The collector's item from 1952 features one of baseball's most celebrated and charismatic legends, and is ...

Mickey Mantle is back on top in a big way – for now, at least. A nearly perfect and incredibly rare 1952 Topps Mantle card sold at auction for a trading card industry record $12.6 million on ...

Collectors would be hard pressed to remember a time when Mickey Mantle wasn't king of the vintage Hobby. Grab your old Beckett Monthly from the 1980s, page to a random set from the 1950s or 60s ...

No Mickey Mantle collection is truly complete without an autograph, and no cards look nicer signed than the Perez-Steele Hall of Fame postcards. Just be warned. Fake Mantle signatures have plagued ...

A rare Mickey Mantle baseball card is going up for auction next month. The owner bought the card at a New York City show in 1991 for $50,000.