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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. (LM Otero/AP, File)

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A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card sold for $12.6 million Sunday, blasting into the record books as the most ever paid for sports memorabilia in a market that has grown exponentially more lucrative in recent years.

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN, Associated Press August 28, 2022