11 year-old boy hits jackpot with rare Baseball player card of Paul Skenes | Sport-others News
An 11-year-old’s birthday present from his parents is about to fetch him money beyond his dreams. When the boy received a hob box of 2024 Topps Chrome Update for Chrmas, he found a redemption card in the box. Though his father mook it as a checkl, the boy knew better and after he sent it back to Topps, they received the highly-prized one-of-one autographed Paul Skenes MLB debut patch card.
Such has been the craze around Skenes, the American baseball pitcher of the Pittsburgh Pirates this year, that the 11 year old might end up making more money than Skenes MLB salary if the auction goes as expected. As of Wednesday night, there have been 56 bids, with the highest bid reportedly as high as 550000 USD. The family had turned over the card to the auction house Fanatics Collect, and there is still a week left before the bids end on March 20. For the record, the All-Star pitcher Skenes is set to make a base salary of $800,000 this season.
Some publications like The Athletic have speculated that the 11 year old might end up getting an offer over 1 million USD in the auction.
Perhaps the most significant individual baseball card produced in 2024 meets the top end of our grading scale.
The Paul Skenes MLB Rookie Debut Patch Auto 1/1 is leaving our facilities with the coveted dual PSA 10. pic.twitter.com/FoRiI6r91G
— PSAcard (@PSAcard) January 23, 2025
The auction house describes the card thus: “Paul Skenes burst onto the scene in 2024 and captivated the entire baseball-card-collecting community – no small feat considering it’s hitters, not pitchers, that generally command the most attention. But, just as he did on the mound in his astounding Rookie of the Year campaign, Skenes overcame his opponents at the dish to become the most talked about player in baseball cards. And while interest in his array of rookies has been as hot as his radar gun readings before he’s even completed a full season in the bigs, one card towers above the rest – this 1/1 MLB Rookie Debut Patch Autograph.In 2023, Topps introduced one of the most exciting new products in collecting – MLB Rookie Debut Patch Autographs.”
And now that card is going to fetch a kid some big money. And to think his father thought it was just a customary checkl found in gift boxes.
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