Trout rookie card fetches record-breaking $900K in auction
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A signed Mike Trout rookie card set a new record at Goldin Auctions' Spring 2020 Premium Auction on Wednesday night, selling for $900,000.
The 2009 Bowman Draft Chrome Red Refractor card broke the record for the highest-priced modern-day baseball card and tied a LeBron James-Michael Jordan card for the most expensive modern-day card of all time, according to Action Network's Darren Rovell.
$900,000 is the sale price, a record for any modern card and $700,000 more than the next closest modern baseball card is what we auctioned this for tonight pic.twitter.com/lpctcRQSyB
— Goldin Auctions (@GoldinAuctions) May 21, 2020
The Red Refractor is the second-rarest version of Trout's top card with only five copies in existence, according to Ryan Cracknell of Beckett.
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