A decades-old, mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card could break a record at auction.
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It's estimated the final cost of the card could exceed $10 million when the auction ends Aug. 27. The record is $6.6 million for a 1909 Honus Wagner card that was sold at auction a year ago, months after another 70-year-old Mantle card fetched $5.2 million., with bidding already up to at least $4.2 million.
"Every time he got up to the plate, the crowd would go crazy, the roars would be there. And he never disappointed you. ... He had that aura about him," card owner Anthony Giordano said of Mantle, who spent his entire career with the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968."Whether you're from the New York area or not, or a Yankees fan, it was always Mickey Mantle that was highlighted.
"I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases," Mantle once said."The quality of the card is the key," said Derek Grady, the executive vice president of sports auctions for Heritage Auctions, which is running the bidding."Four sharp corners, the gloss and the color jumps off the card."
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