Sports Collectors Digest

Joe Garagiola’s Honus Wagner card fetches $2.52 million

The card craze continues… The Honus Wagner 1909 T206—the one former baseball player and broadcaster Joe Garagiola once traded his 1954 New York Giants uniform for—sold at Heritage Auctions for a remarkable $2,520,000.

Considering its condition as SGC Authentic makes it all the more amazing.

“The various patches of paper loss (on the backside) helps shed light upon the card’s unlikely survival, as it was clearly pasted into

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