Rare Paul Skenes rookie card sells at auction for more than the star pitcher earns in salary from the Pirates

Paul Skenes 2024 Topps Chrome Update MLB During Thursday’s auction, the debuted card was sold for $ 1.11 million. Sales also include buyer premium.

Buyer’s identity is not published, but the card was obtained through the collection of fanatics.

The $ 1.11 million price sign is a record for the disk card that has become one of the most popular baseball players. The rare card was also sold for more than SKENES ‘$ 875,000 salary, which he would make this season.

The most expensive modern sports card continues to be a single Mike Trout Rookie card, which sold $ 3.9 million on August 2020. Before the sale of these skenes card, the highest amount paid in private sales was $ 150,000.

The rare one-one Skhere card includes a patch, which Pittsburgh’s pirates start to wear his jersey in 2024 during his MLB debut.

This past Christmas, 11-year-old Dodgers Fan ended with pulling skenes after Skeness searched on its own. The pirates published a prior to the incredible offer, which included 30 years of seasonal tickets with skenes and greet skenes and private PNC PARK tours. Skenes’ girlfriend, LSU Gymnast Livvy Dunne also offered to host who landed on the pitch to the pirate game.

Despite the big proposal, the family rejected the experience of pirates. Instead, the 11-year-old family spoke with various auction houses before choosing the gathering of fanatics. Kevin Lena, who is the vice president of Fanatics’s Marketplace, actually jumped to Texas for a rare scanner card.

The collection of collections from the card is going to be donated to the fire funds of Los Angeles. The rest will be headed with a 11-year-old family.