It might not be a terrible idea to sort through the collection of hockey cards you might have stashed in the basement.
Heritage Auctions recently sold an extremely rare, 40-plus-year-old O-Pee-Chee 1979 Wayne Gretzky rookie card to a buyer for $1.29 million USD, making it the first hockey card in history to fetch more than $1 million and one of the most expensive sports trading cards ever.
More than 5,700 rookie cards issued for The Great One by O-Pee-Chee have been evaluated by the Professional Sports Authenticator grading service, and the card that sold for over $1 million is one of only two to receive a perfect “gem mint” score, according to the Canadian Press.