The very sphere that featured in the most famous error in baseball history – and perhaps the most recognized baseball in the world – the “Buckner Ball” from the 1986 World Series, Game Six, brought $418,250 at Heritage Auctions on Friday, May 5, to lead Heritage Auctions’ $7+ million Vintage Sports Collectibles Auction.  The ball was purchased by an advanced collector that wishes to remain anonymous. Read More

Led by the sale of collecting’s most famous baseball card, Memory Lane’s Holy Grail Auction generated $2,027,079 when the curtain closed on bidding early Sunday morning. A T206 Honus Wagner, long held by one of the hobby’s most dedicated collectors, sold for $654,500, the highest price ever obtained at auction for a PSA 2 graded example. Read More

(By Jim Salter, Associated Press) – A New Jersey man paid $1.2 million for a rare 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card in an online auction that brought interest from many potential buyers who had never owned a card before, the sale organizer said.  The buyer hasn’t decided whether to come forward publicly, and the seller, a Houston businessman, wants to remain anonymous, said Bill Goodwin, the suburban St. Louis collectibles dealer who ran the auction that ended Friday. The buyer’s bid was the highest of 14 made since the auction began last month. Read full story on NBC Sports here. Read More

Legendary Auctions, a premier sports memorabilia auction house, announced recently that that its March sales delivered the results it had promised… and then some. The sale, which included over 2,800 lots of high-end Sports and Americana collectibles, included the first major installment of the Chad Drier Collection – the hobby’s largest private offering since the Halper Collection. Read More

A collection of partial and complete autographed vintage baseball card sets attracted bidders in Collect Auction’s spring sale, which concluded Thursday night. Headlining the group was a near set of 1958 Topps with 423 of 495 cards autographed that sold for $10,766 with the buyer’s premium.  Featuring 189 deceased players’ autographs and 39 Hall of Famers, the set varied in condition.  Read More

(From Tom Bartsch Sports collectors Digest) – Legendary Auctions has announced that its March sales delivered the results it had promised – and then some. The sale, which included over 2,800 lots of high-end Sports and Americana collectibles, included the first major installment of the Chad Drier Collection – the hobby’s largest private offering since the Halper Collection. Read More

Mile High Card Company’s  March 2012 Extra Innings Internet-ONLY Auction closed with good results.  With over 219 lots offered there was over $67,000 in sales.   The sale was highloighted by a ?1952 Topps #1 Andy Pafko SGC 88 NM/MT 8 which sold for $18,239.  We are also accepting consignments for our April 2012 Auction. We are currently seeking high grade PSA & SGC Cards, Completely graded sets, 19th century cards, game-used jerseys and bats, vintage Type I Photos and high end autographed items.

Grey Flannel Auctions’ Winter Classic auction held live at the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards in Baltimore was a smashing success, grossing $1,187,599 and achieving a 100% sell-through rate. The Feb. 11 auction featuring 107 lots of choice baseball, basketball, football and other professional sports memorabilia chalked up an astonishing average price of almost $11,500 per lot. Read More

 The first auction offerings from The Dreier Collection just ending in The Legendary Auctions  March 2012 catalog auction.  With sales of the Drier items exceeding $1,000,000 , this is the first of many offerings of the Drier collection over the next two years with Legendary Auctions. Over 400 lots were presented in a special catalog as the initial installment of this legendary collection. The auction featured rare 19th century relics, baseball pinbacks, baseball cards and memorabilia, game used uniforms and boxing ephemera.  View the complete auction results here.

Last days to place your initial bids and be a part of Grey Flannel Auctions February 11th sale realized prices totaling $1,187,599 with an astonishing average lot value of almost $11,500. View final prices realized here. We are actively seeking consignments for our upcoming May 2012 Summer Games Catalog.  Read More

Kicking off the new year with a resounding bang, Mile High Card Company concluded its Premium Holiday auction on January 20th, 2012 and saw tremendous results across the board. This auction had a markedly different feel in terms of size and scope in comparison to traditional MHCC auctions, focusing on a smaller lot size with select higher-level items being offered. Read More

The result of an auction is probably sending scores of collectors to their 1979 Topps sets and unopened packs, hoping there might be a fifth Ozzie Smith rookie card that could earn the favor of a PSA grader. The latest Mile High Card Co. auction closed early Friday morning with a PSA 10 copy of the most valuable card in the 1979 Topps set selling for a whopping $20,852. It is believed to be the highest price ever paid for a 1970s rookie card. Read full story on Sports Collectors Daily here.

A PSA 7-graded blank back 1916 Sporting News Babe Ruth smashed all records for the issue early Thursday morning when it sold at auction for $200,168.  Goodwin & Company sold the card in its first auction of 2012. Read full story here at Sports Collectors Daily.

Believed to be the first and only signed version of its kind in existence, the famous Lou Gehrig 1939 final farewell photograph generated 41 bids and ultimately sold for a whopping $108,169 in Lelands.com’s winter auction. Considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Gehrig signed few autographs after being diagnosed with ALS, hence this signature is very, very rare. Gehrig’s 224th home run ball from 1931 sold for $21,400. Read More

SportsCardLink.Com is proud to announce the conclusion and results of its final auction of the 2011 “season.” The auction concluded on Thursday, December 8th, 2011, and included over 200 high quality lots of sports cards in all grades and price ranges. Several spectacular prices were attained, including a cumulative total of over $20,000 for a 15 card collection of scarce black ink “Lenox” brand cards from the highly collected set of T206 White Borders. Individual results from this special group include: Read More

One of the most rare and desirable baseball cards in the hobby was up for grabs in Memory Lane Inc.’s Winter Classics Auction.  When the dust settled, the PSA 5-gradedT206 Eddie Plank generated 16 bids and sold for $107,100.  The scarce Plank card was lot number one in the large catalog auction that generated $1.6 million in winning bids. Read More

Julien’s Auctions Icons and Idols Sports and Rock ‘n Roll  auction that closed December 3, 2011 landed many auction highlights in the $3.9 million dollar sale. Highlighted items include a world record price for a prototypes of the original Coca-Cola bottle which sold for $240,000, collection of Marilyn Monroe photos and negatives from her first photo shoot $352,000, Michael Jordan’s original John Wooden Award that sold for $28,800, and much more. The full auction results can be seen on the Julien’s Auctions web site here. This auction was the first to include a sports memorabilia section (150 items) which carried an average value (price sold) of more than $1600. Details include: Read More

Grey Flannel AuctionsJoe DiMaggio may have retired his bat in 1951, but the legendary Yankee Clipper continues to slam in home runs at auction. A game-used road jersey with the team name “New York” on the front and DiMaggio’s long-retired Yankee number “5” on the back commanded $256,858 in Grey Flannel’s Nov. 30 Holiday Auction. (All prices quoted are inclusive of 20% buyer’s premium.) Read More

Hall of Famer Julius “Dr. J” Erving’s 1974 New York Nets ABA World Championship ring sold for $460,741 and set a record price for a sports ring in SCP Auctions’ November auction which concluded early Sunday. Another top lot, Lou Gehrig’s 1938-39 bat used to hit his last home run in a Yankees uniform, which originates from the estate of well-known actor Bing Russell, yielded $403,664. The 144-item Dr. J collection, the largest and most significant player basketball collection ever sold, brought in $3,522,627. Other top items from his personal basketball memorabilia collection include 1983 76ers World Championship ring ($244,240), and All-Star rings from 1978 ($238,853), 1983 ($218.977) and 1984 ($218,977).   Read More

The Detroit Tigers uniform worn by Hall of Fame outfielder Ty Cobb during the 1922 season sold for $358,500 on Nov. 11 in Heritage Auctions’ Vintage Sports Collectibles Signature® Auction, notching the fourth six-figure price commanded by the category for a game worn jersey in 2011. A rare “Shoeless Joe” Jackson signed baseball topped all autograph results at a price of $77,675, bringing the auction total to just more than $5.3 million. All prices include 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. Read More