The 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth No. 149 card sold for $1.62 million on Thursday at a Fanatics Collect auction, making it one of the most highly prized pieces of Ruth memorabilia ever sold.
The card is just one of four Ruth issues in the 1933 Goudey set, and one of them currently resides in The Smithsonian.
"Typically, cards like this don't come to auction," Fanatics Live & Fanatics Collect president Chris Lamontagne told Michael Clair of MLB.com on Nov. 15. "You could say this is a once-in-a-generation-type moment, given the provenance and the history of a card like this.