It happened at Robert Edward Auctions (REA), where one of only about 10 known examples of the Ruth card sold for a record price of $450,300. That was nearly $48,000 more than a 1909 T206 Wagner, which was offered in the same grade and was once the subject of an FBI “card hunt” after it was stolen from a restaurant display in the 1990s.
The red-bordered Ruth card shows a young Babe as a pitcher with the Baltimore Orioles not long after he was signed out of ...
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Babe Ruth Upsets Honus Wagner in Classic Baseball Card Slugfest
class="ui-droppable">The sports memorabilia world is still buzzing over an auction result that can rightly be considered an upset. For the first time ever, a 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth rookie card sold for more money than the famed T206 Honus Wagner.