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Another Michael Jordan rookie card sets a record
Collectors are accustomed to seeing Michael Jordan rookie cards sell for six and seven figures, with high grades of his top two cards ranging from $1 million to $2.7 million.
Now another Jordan rookie card is setting records with a period-signed 1984-85 Star Basketball Court Kings #26 Michael Jordan Rookie, dual-graded by CGC and JSA, selling for a record $114,000 in the Spring Auction at Huggins & Scott Auctions. It is the first time a card from the set has topped six figures.
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The 1984-1985 Star Basketball Court Kings set is a 50-card set of oversized cards sold separately from the 1984-85 Star Basketball set, which also features a coveted Jordan rookie card.
A near-complete set of 1984-85 Star Court Kings cards with 38 signed examples, including Hall of Famers Julius Erving, George Gervin, James Worthy, Moses Malone and Isiah Thomas, sold for $90,000.
The auction also featured a PSA 8 example of the iconic 1961-1962 Fleer Basketball #8 Wilt Chamberlain Rookie, which sold for $69,000.
Also setting a record was a 1980 Charlotte O's Police Orange Border Cal Ripken Jr. Minor League Rookie card (SGC EX+ 70), which sold for $81,000, shattering the record set by a PSA 6.5 in Huggins & Scott’s Summer 2024 Auction.
“This was an incredibly exciting auction by a number of different metrics, including rewriting the hobby record books for many items as well as engaging the highest number of bidders in company history,” said Huggins & Scott Vice President & Director of Consignments Ron Oser. “We saw strong interest across a variety of different areas within cards, comics, and coins, demonstrating what a great place the hobby is in as we enter the summer.”
Rounding out the tops sales was a pair of Goudey Babe Ruth classics—a 1933 Goudey #144 (PSA 5) for $42,000, and a 1933 Goudey #53 Babe Ruth (PSA 4) for $33,600.
Other notable sales included:
• 1964 Topps Near-Complete PSA-Graded Set (502/587) $28,800.
• 1939 Play Ball #92 Ted Williams Rookie (PSA NM 7) $24,000.
• 1933 Goudey #92 Lou Gehrig (PSA 5) $23,400.
• 1909-1911 T206 White Border Ray Demmitt St. Louis (PSA VG 3, Polar Bear Back) $20,400.
• 1952 Topps #312 Jackie Robinson High Number (PSA 4) $19,200.
• Thurman Munson single-signed bat with full Beckett LOA $18,000.
• 1969-1972 Roberto Clemente Pittsburgh Pirates game-used bat (PSA/DNA GU 7) $17,400.
• 1957 Topps Near Complete Set (388/407) with (78) PSA-graded, including 50 PSA 8 $17,400.
• Babe Ruth signed OAL/Harridge baseball (PSA/DNA overall Grade 6, signature Grade 7) $15,000.
