Gem Mint 10 Derek Jeter Rookie tops $300K in Summer Rarities Auction at Memory Lane
A perfect 1993 Derek Jeter rookie card sold for more than $300,000, topping the $6.9 million Summer Rarities Auction at Memory Lane Inc.
Jeter’s 1993 Upper Deck SP rookie card, one of only 22 with a PSA GEM MINT 10 grade, sold for $340,736. PSA has graded over 26,000 examples of Jeter’s most popular rookie but the silver foil card stock has made it challenging to find in high grades.
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The auction featured more than 2,200 lots of sports cards and memorabilia and generated over $6.9 million.
Collectors of pre-War rarities chased two iconic gems, including one of only 21 T206 Ty Cobb cards featuring the ad for Cobb’s own tobacco brand on the back. The PSA 1.5 example netted $280,736.
A PSA 5 example of the rare 1914 Cracker Jack Cobb card also attracted heavy bidding before it landed at $93,712.
It was a more modern, post-War card that set a record, however, with the first 1969 Topps Reggie Jackson rookie card graded PSA 9 crossing the six-figure mark with a new high of $100,846.
The top-ranked complete set of the rare 1888 N29 Allen & Ginter set of six cards (8.00 GPA) also fetched an impressive price, winding up at $54,707.
Several vintage sets were broken up and sold individually, led by a 1953 Topps Mickey Mantle (PSA 8) for $91,470, while a Yogi Berra PSA 9 from the same set netted $38,879.
Other lesser-known cards that attracted high bids from set collectors included a PSA 9 Howie Pollet card selling for $22,476, while PSA 9 cards of Bob Feller, Monte Irvin and Billy Martin each netted over $20,000.
Other notable sales include:
• T206 Ty Cobb Green Portrait (PSA 6) $82,966.
• 2002-03 Panini Futebol Portugal Stickers Cristiano Ronaldo (BGS 10 Pristine) $76,978.
• 1953 Bowman Color Phil Rizzuto/Billy Martin (PSA 9) $72,455.
• 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle (Authentic) $46,198.
• 1959 Topps Norm Cash rookie (PSA 10) $42,364.
• 1964 Topps Mickey Mantle (PSA 9) $37,934.
• 1955 Topps All-American Ace Parker rookie (PSA 9) $33,133.
• Type 4 W600 Sporting Life Cabinet of Honus Wagner (PSA 1) $28,674.
Memory Lane is now accepting consignments for its Winter 2026 Auction.