The Most Expensive Baseball Card

The T206 Wagner card is considered one of the most expensive baseball cards. Wagner had own a millions of heart while there in the Pittsburgh Pirates. His excellence can be well imagined from the fact that he was one of the five players to be included in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The card was pulled from transmission just post about 200 made it in business, like Eddie Plank, some has it in mind Wagner was not interested in bearing the usage of tobacco or interested in having more money.

Brief Background:

The card was made and released by the ATC, also known as American Tobacco Company. The card was released from 1909 to 1911 as one of the parts of its T206 series. Wagner declined to permit production of his baseball card to keep on. Some assume that he was not interested in children spending money to buy cigarette packs to have his cards. The other speculated reason is that he was interested in having more return from ATC.

The ATC concluded production of the Wagner card and a sum of just 40 cards was only made to be available in tyhe public. The card’s value was earlier estimated to be US$ 50 in 1933 that made it one of the most expensive baseball cards over the globe during the period.

Card Statistics and manufacture

The conventional card in T206 succession was having a breadth of about 3.65 cm and the length was about 6.67 cm. Some cards were having different shape. Many believe that most of the cards in the collection had been changed at a point.

Later it was modified by and revamped by making some enhancements in its edge zones to enhance the look of it. In almost every T206 series card (in addition with the Wagner Card) there used to be something relevant with the player that was made by various stage print works. This resulted into printing of various colours one above the other to display a great design.

The Wagner cards were primarily showing the Sweet Caporal brands of cigarettes.

 Wagner’s participation

After 1909, the ATC wished approval from baseball palyers for addition into the T206 stack. That included 524 prime league players. 76 of those had to be listed in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Wagner was having a glorious journey all through a decade. He was one of the finest players of the perios. In addition with this, Wagner was the part of many other brands like chewing gum, soft drinks, etc.

Conflicts:

It was too apparent for ATC to wish for Wagner’s consent to make his picture available on the baseball card. However, Wagner was too strict to decline the proposal. As we have mentioned above the cigarette was the major concern for him not showing much interest. In fact, he endangered to go for legal action against ATC if thy take further steps and made his baseball card.

 

 

On a Whole:

As a consequence of advertisement achieved from fiscally valuable Gretzky T206 Honus Wagner, there have many legal T206 Wagner cards appeared. However, those were not much buzzed in comparison. There are around 55 legal Wagner cards those have their presence.

The Most Expensive Baseball Card by Satyakam