A Jordan and Kobe Logoman Still Holds the Record for the Most Expensive Sports Card Ever Sold

The most expensive sports card ever sold is the 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Dual Logoman autograph of Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Heritage Auctions sold the PSA 6 1/1 for $12,932,000 on Aug. 23, 2025. The sale ended the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle's three years at the top.

The record nearly fell again this summer. In July 2026, Fanatics reported an $11 million private sale of a 2026 Topps Chrome Shohei Ohtani Back to Back Dual Gold Logoman. A collector in Florida pulled the 1/1 from a hobby box opened at Boca Sports Cards.

Every sports card sale of $5.2 million or more

This list runs through Oct. 26, 2026, with reported prices for private deals and the buyer's premium included on auction sales.

Honorable Mentions: a T206 Wagner in a PSA 1 sold for $5,124,000 at Goldin in February 2026. A Victor Wembanyama Prizm Black PSA 10 sold privately for $5,110,000 in May 2026. Patrick Mahomes's 2017 National Treasures Platinum Shield 1/1 holds football's top reported sale at $4,300,000.

Why each one sold so high

Jordan and Kobe Dual Logoman, PSA 6

• It's the only one of Jordan's eight Dual Logoman cards that pairs him with Kobe. Jordan's patch is a gold Logoman from his 1996-97 title season.
• Kevin O'Leary, Matt Allen and Paul Warshaw bought it together because they didn't want to bid against each other. O'Leary said he doesn't expect it back on the market in his lifetime.

1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, SGC 9.5

• Alan Rosen first sold it for $1,000, then bought it back for $40,000 in 1991 and flipped it for $50,000 at a show at Madison Square Garden.
• Its owner, Anthony Giordano, turned down multimillion-dollar offers for decades before his sons talked him into grading it and selling.

Shohei Ohtani Back to Back Dual Gold Logoman, 1/1

• Topps announced the pull on July 30, eight days after 2026 Topps Chrome came out, from a hobby box opened at Boca Sports Cards in Florida.
• The 2025 patch comes off the uniform Ohtani wore on Sept. 7, 2025, the night he hit his 47th and 48th home runs.

Jordan and LeBron Dual Logoman, 1/1

• Fanatics Collect called it "a true ghost" before Secure, the group behind the Jordan and Kobe, bought it weeks after that Heritage sale.
• No card of LeBron has ever sold for more.

Cooper Flagg NBA Debut Patch Auto, PSA 10

• It came out one box into a Rhody Breakers stream on Aug. 10, 2026, where its owner had paid $515 for the Mavericks spot.
• It beat the roughly $1.1 million Paul Skenes debut patch record by almost $7 million after 83 bids.

T206 Honus Wagner, SGC 2

• A year after the SGC 3 lower on this list set the record at $6,606,296, Goldin sold this SGC 2 privately for about $644,000 more.
• ESPN counts only 50 to 60 surviving T206 Wagners because, by the story his family tells, Wagner didn't want his card selling tobacco to kids.

1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth, SGC 3

• Only 10 copies exist of the card that shows Ruth at 19 with his hometown Baltimore Orioles of the International League.
• It stayed in the same Baltimore-area family for more than 100 years and was the copy on display at the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum from 1998 until 2023.

T206 Honus Wagner, SGC 3

• Fred McKie won it for $1,100 at a 1973 convention auction in Detroit and sold it to Barry Halper for $2,500 three years later.
• When REA sold it in August 2021, all four T206 Wagners graded higher than a 3 sat in private collections.

Kobe and LeBron Dual Logoman, PSA 8

• It's the biggest sale Alt has ever run, with bidding climbing from just under $4 million on the last day of the three-week auction to a $5,418,200 close before the premium.
• On the same Exquisite Dual Logoman design, Jordan next to LeBron sold for $10,000,000 in September 2025, about $3.5 million more than this Kobe pairing.

Stephen Curry National Treasures Logoman, PSA 8

• The valuation passed the $5.2 million LeBron Exquisite rookie from that April as the most anyone had put on a basketball card.
• Alt bought 51% of the card to anchor its second fund, and a private collector who asked to stay anonymous kept the other 49%.

T206 Honus Wagner, Piedmont back, SGC Authentic

• It's one of three Wagners known with a Piedmont ad on the back, while nearly every other copy carries Sweet Caporal.
• It came with a 1958 letter in which hobby pioneer Charles Bray offered $25 for the card, and it sold after 53 bids for the most anyone has paid for a Wagner graded Authentic.

LeBron James Exquisite Rookie Patch Auto /23, BGS 9

• The Beckett population report listed 21 copies when it sold, with two at 9.5 and four at 9. This copy, numbered 7/23, had the best subgrades of the four 9s.
• One of the 9.5s sold for $1.8 million at Goldin in July 2020, nine months before PWCC flew a rep to the United Kingdom to close this deal with a seller in Europe.

Aaron Judge Bowman Chrome Draft Superfractor Auto, BGS 9.5

• It sold for $324,000 at PWCC in May 2022, six months before Judge won the first of his three MVP awards.
• When it sold in March 2026, no modern baseball card had sold for more, as it passed the $3,936,000 Mike Trout Superfractor from 2020.

1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, PSA 9

• Former NFL lineman Evan Mathis sold this copy at Heritage for $2,880,000 in April 2018.
• Actor Rob Gough called it "highly underpriced" when he bought it in January 2021, with only six 1952 Topps Mantles believed to be graded PSA 9 at the time.

The most expensive Wilt Chamberlain, Jordan rookie and Ohtani cards

Goldin sold Wilt Chamberlain's 1961-62 Fleer rookie in an SGC 10 privately for $1.7 million in September 2024. Goldin called it the most expensive Wilt Chamberlain card of all time. ESPN reported it as the highest price ever paid for a basketball card made before 1980. The card spent more than 60 years in a grocery store in Crosby, Minnesota. About five weeks after the sale, its new owner crossed it to PSA, where it also came back a 10. PSA has graded three Chamberlain rookies a 10 out of 2,347 it has graded in all.

Michael Jordan's 1984-85 Star #101 is the card many collectors call his true rookie. PSA has graded three in a PSA 9 and none higher. A PSA 9 was reported to sell for $925,000 in a private deal in May 2024. Another PSA 9 went for more than $1 million later that year, according to its buyer. The highest public sale is a BGS 9 at $387,484 at Memory Lane in February 2026.

Shohei Ohtani's record moved fast once he won the 2024 World Series. A 2018 Bowman Chrome Orange Refractor autograph /25 in a BGS 10 Black Label sold for $533,140 at Goldin in November 2024. Heritage sold a 2024 Topps 50/50 Dynasty Black autographed relic 1/1 in a PSA 9 with a 9 autograph grade for $1,067,500 in March 2025. Fanatics Collect then sold a Gold Logoman autograph for $3 million in December 2025 and brokered a 2018 Bowman Chrome Superfractor in a BGS 9.5 for $3,365,000 in July 2026. The $11 million Back to Back Dual Gold Logoman came weeks later.

Three of these records spent decades in a basement, a grocery store, and one family's collection

The record Mantle started in a basement outside Boston, where a man whose father had been a delivery driver for Topps' 1952 cards told Alan Rosen a case had sat for more than 30 years. Rosen counted 75 Mantles at the house.

The Wilt rookie above sat in that Crosby grocery store, while the Baltimore News Ruth was collected by a newspaper boy in 1914 and stayed in one Baltimore-area family for more than 100 years.

Nobody is pulling a Logoman out of a shoebox, but the vintage records on this list came out of a basement, a store and a family's collection. If you've got an old box like that, our guide to checking an old card box walks through what to look for.