Gregory Kitchen didn’t think much of the ball at first. It sat largely forgotten for decades, an old, scuffed relic from another era. He acquired it in New York in 2006 in a $1,500 trade with a fellow ...

A signed 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle rookie card sold for $451,400 at Heritage Auctions on February 28, 2026, setting a new record for a Mantle autograph on his rookie card. The PSA 2 example carried a ...