1921 W551 Strip Card Babe Ruth SGC 86

• Sold For: $2,252
• Year: 1921
• Auction: 2013 February
• Lot #: 8
• Auction Category: Prewar Baseball - 1910s and 1920s Cards

Graded 86 NM+ 7.5 by SGC. Not only is the offered 1921 W551 strip card of Babe Ruth among the first depictions of "The Bambino" as a Yankee but it also is one of his highest graded renderings of the slugger for the designation. Meticulously extracted from a period strip, this bold heirloom resides as the lone copy at the grading level with only three better. Presides in the upper 93% of all similar copies evaluated by the third-party grading service.