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.

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.

I suddenly felt like I helped give birth to a 1952 Mantle. It was like the stories of a cabby delivering a baby in the back of a cab. Soon, the card was graded — it’s an SGC 2.5.

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 a mint Sunday, bringing $12.6 million at auction, the most ever paid in the booming sports memorabilia market.

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.

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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 ...

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