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Honus Wagner card sells for more than $7M

By Patrick Damp

August 5, 2022 / 8:32 AM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - It's now the most expensive sports card in history.

A Honus Wagner card just sold at auction for more than $7 million.

That beats the previous record, for a similar card of the Pirates' icon, which went for $6.6 million nearly a year ago.

The Wagner card is routinely referred to as "the Holy Grail" of trading cards.

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Patrick Damp

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.