A Few of the Rarest Baseball Cards
There are a lot of rare baseball cards out there. One of, if not the most rare is the 1909 T206 Honus Wagner card. People are guessing that there are only 50-75 of these cards in existence. This card has sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction. One was actually sold privately to a person in California for 2.8 million dollars.
Another rare baseball card is the team card of the 1869 Cincinnati Redstockings from Peck & Snyder. The Cincinnati Redstockings were the first professional baseball team in America. The front of the card had the names of all the players and the back has some advertising for Peck & Snyder. Some say there are only 10 of these around. At an auction for one of these cards, a reserve price of $4,000 was set and it sold for $26,100.
You can’t talk about rare baseball cards with mentioning Babe Ruth. The Frederick Foto Babe Ruth from 1921is one of the most rare cards in the world. It is a photograph pasted to a cardboard mount. The set this card came in had about a hundred cards in it, and most of the players were from the Pacific Coast League. Frederick Foto was the official photographer for the leagues Sacramento Senators. Ruth is depicted in his Red Sox uniform. Nobody really knows what the purpose of the set was.
Then there is the M131 Baltimore News Series Ty Cobb from 1911. This card had the same front image and checklist as the 1911 E94 George Close Co. card, but it had the Baltimore News logo on the back.
