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Michael Jordan's baseball rookie card from Upper Deck. Special insert in the 1991 Upper Deck Baseball packs.

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One of the rarest and most valuable rookie cards of basketball legend Michael Jordan is expected to sell for as much as $3 million when it goes to auction next month as the market demand for sports memorabilia continues to ramp up, particularly for items tied to Jordan in the wake of the popular 2020 documentary series The Last Dance.

A Michael Jordan Upper Deck Signed 1986 Fleer #57 Rookie Card is estimated to sell for between $2 ... [+] million and $3 million next month at Christie's.

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A Michael Jordan Upper Deck Signed 1986 Fleer #57 Rookie Card in top condition is estimated to sell for between $2 million and $3 million as part of a special online-only auction next month at Christie’s, the auction house said.

If the card sells within that seven-figure price range, it will rank among the most expensive trading cards ever sold, led by a Lebron James Rookie Patch Auto Parallel card that fetched a record-breaking $5.2 million last year.

Between 2006 and 2007, buyers who were lucky enough to pull a rare Fleer 20th anniversary card featuring Jordan could send it in to Upper Deck and in return get an additional original Fleer Jordan rookie card signed by Jordan himself, according to Christie’s.

Of the 23 cards released this way, only 14 have been identified, graded and remain in the hands of private collectors, and the card up for sale with Christie’s has the second-highest quality grading ever given to one of the Jordan rookie cards.

The card will be on display from June 3 to June 7 at Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries in New York City before bidding ends.

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Jordan is widely considered to be among the greatest basketball players of all time, having earned a record 10 scoring titles, five most valuable player awards and six championship rings with the Chicago Bulls. His legacy was further strengthened with the 2020 premiere of The Last Dance, a Netflix and ESPN series that examined the Chicago Bulls’ tumultuous 1997 season. Since then, auction prices have surged for memorabilia tied to Jordan. Last year, a pair of game-worn sneakers from his rookie season sold for a record-breaking $1.5 million to become the most expensive ever sold at auction. They broke the previous record that was also held by a $615,000 pair of Jordan’s game-worn shoes that still had a piece of glass embedded in one sole from when he broke the backboard during a slam dunk.

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Sports memorabilia has fetched higher and higher prices at auction over the past several years. Earlier this month, the jersey purportedly worn by soccer star Diego Maradona when he scored his notorious “Hand of God” goal sold for $9.3 million, the highest price ever paid for sports memorabilia. Sports trading cards proved especially popular during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, as people stayed home during lockdowns and as professional sports games were canceled, eBay’s head of collectibles and trading cards Nicole Colombo said last year.

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