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Babe Ruth rookie card, rare 1915 team photo highlight vintage auction at Goldin
Rare Babe Ruth cards have highlighted numerous vintage baseball card auctions over the years.
But few have featured a rare photograph that features a young Ruth and three other Baseball Hall of Famers.
Goldin’s 2025 Winter Vintage Elite Auction is highlighted by a 1915 Boston Red Sox team photo postcard that features Ruth and fellow Hall of Famers Tris Speaker, Herb Pennock, and Harry Hooper. Produced one year after Ruth’s 1914 Baltimore News rookie card, the rare paper artifact captures an image of the 1915 Red Sox team and marks one of Ruth’s first appearances on a baseball collectible. It has a starting bid of $130,000.
Also featured is a 1916 M101-5 Sporting News Blank Back #151 Babe Ruth Rookie card, one of the most highly coveted pre-war baseball cards in existence. Graded PSA 1.5, the card is one of the earliest known cards of Ruth with the Red Sox.
The auction opened on Jan. 25 and runs through Feb. 15.
Other auction highlights include:
• A 1893 Pifer & Becker Cy Young twice-signed Cabinet card with the signed original mailing envelope. With a starting bid of $110,000, the card, which is tied directly to Young’s personal collection, is the earliest known Cy Young card.
• 1914 E145-1 Cracker Jack #103 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (SGC VG 4). Starting bid: $85,000.
• 1933 Goudey #181 Babe Ruth (SGC NM-MT 8). Starting bid: $52,000.
• 1936 V355 World Wide Gum #51 Joe DiMaggio “True” Rookie card (PSA 6.5). Starting bid: $97,000.
