Скачать или смотреть Rookie Babe Ruth card at auction for millions

(21 Nov 2023)
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Chester, New Jersey - 20 November 2023
1. Various of 1914 Babe Ruth card
ANNOTATION: An auction house expects a Babe Ruth baseball card will sell for $10 million or more.
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Dwyer, Robert Edward Auctions
“This card is, in our opinion, the most significant baseball card ever made. We have it right here. It is from 1914. One of only ten in existence. And it pictures Babe Ruth as a 19 year old member of the Baltimore Orioles of the International League.”
3. Tight shots of card
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brian Dwyer, Robert Edward Auctions
“By the time the auction ends in just a little less than two weeks, we expect that the card will sell for upwards of $10 million or more.”
5. Babe Ruth card on stand
ANNOTATION: The sports memorabilia market that has grown exponentially more lucrative in recent years.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York - 17 November 2023
SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Kowpak, Bleecker Trading:
6. “Yeah. So I think it's a lot to be that plays on nostalgia. People have come back into this space over the past, let's say five, three years and it was really kickstarted by Covid. People are going through their attics, finding this old stuff they had, and it brought back a lot of feelings of nostalgia, just like that concept. You want to get that car you couldn't afford when you were 18, that red Corvette. Now you can go back and get that Mickey Mantle card or in this case, Babe Ruth from 1914, something that was a great piece for a lot of people. Now, people with a little extra money in their pocket can start to put that to use and get something they can never afford. For a lot of people, they look at this as art. Someone from my generation would never put $10 million into Picasso painting. That means nothing to me. But a Babe Ruth card as a Yankee fan for somebody that could be in one of one collection piece.”
7. Michael Kowpak, General Manager of Bleecker Trading card shop, entering store
8. Kowpak opening display case
9. Kowpak with baseball cards

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chester, New Jersey - 20 November 2023
10. Brian Dwyer showing back of card
STORYLINE:
A New Jersey auction house says it expects to sell for upwards of $10 million a baseball card from 1914 of Babe Ruth in his rookie year - one of only ten known to exist.

Brian Dwyer of Robert Edward Auctions says bidding is already above $6 million for the card, and there is still a week and a half to go before the auction closes.

The card, featuring Ruth at 19 years old, is the latest high-profile sale in a sports memorabilia market that has grown exponentially more lucrative.

Last year, a 1951 Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million, blasting into the record books as the most ever paid for sports memorabilia.

Michael Kowpak, who manages a sports memorabilia store named Bleecker Trading in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood and has no connection to the Babe Ruth card auction, says the recent boost in prices for sports memorabilia is based on nostalgia.

The pandemic partly drove the growth in demand as people spent more time at home rummaging through potential treasure troves of childhood memories and family heirlooms and putting them for sale.

The Babe Ruth card auction, which runs through December 3, will show if that pandemic-era trend is going strong.

AP video shot by Ted Shaffrey

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