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A mint condition 1979 O-Pee-Chee card of
Gretzky with the Edmonton Oilers during the 1978-79 season broke
the previous high mark set by the same card, which sold for
$465,000 in August 2016, according to NHL.com.
"Baseball has a much longer history and has a lion's share of
the sports collectors' market as a whole, but hockey has its
place, and Gretzky definitely goes on the Mount Rushmore of
greatest of all time," Chris Ivy of Heritage Auctions told The
Canadian Press.
"He's right up there with Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan."
The 59-year-old Canadian is the league's all-time leading scorer
and won four Stanley Cups in his Hall of Fame career. He is
widely considered the greatest hockey player ever.
"We're very excited and glad it got to (almost) $1.3 million,"
Ivy said. "It very easily could have sold for $1.1 million and
it just as easily could have sold for $1.6 million. It comes
down to who's willing to cut the check. It set a record... one
more record to add to Wayne Gretzky's tally.
"He deserves to have the highest-selling hockey card of all
time."
(Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; editing by Clare
Fallon)
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