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Mickey Mantle card breaks record, as sports memorabilia soar

FILE - Challenger Muhammad Ali, right, watches as defending world champion George Foreman goes down to the canvas in the eighth round of their WBA/WBC championship match, on Oct. 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire. A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card has sold for $12.6 million, blasting into the record books Sunday Aug. 28, 2022 as the most expensive ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia. It easily surpassed the $6.2 million for the heavyweight boxing belt reclaimed by Muhammad Ali during 1974's “Rumble in the Jungle.” (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) FILE - Argentina's Diego Maradona, left, beats England goalkeeper Peter Shilton to a high ball and scores his first of two goals in a World Cup quarterfinal in Mexico City, on June 22, 1986. A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card has sold for $12.6 million, blasting into the record books Sunday Aug. 28, 2022 as the most expensive ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia. The rare Mantle card eclipsed the record just posted a few months ago — $9.3 million for the jersey worn by Maradona when he scored the contentious “Hand of God” goal in soccer's 1986 World Cup. (AP Photo/El Grafico, Buenos Aires, File) FILE - A Mickey Mantle baseball card is displayed at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, on July 21, 2022. A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card has sold for $12.6 million, blasting into the record books Sunday Aug. 28, 2022 as the most expensive ever paid for a piece of sports memorabilia. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Mickey Mantle card breaks record, as sports memorabilia soar