A unique commercial card sold for large dollars on Friday morning after an auction was almost three more hours than scheduled.
Paul Skenes 1/1 Patch Patch Patch Patch Patch card, which was taken by an 11 -year -old boy in the Los Angeles area on Christmas morning, was sold for $ 1.1 million in the A March Premier auction, Fanatics Collect.
Skenes, who was appointed rookie of the Year of the National League in 2024 and finished third in the vote of the Cy Young Prize of the National League, will win only $ 875,000 this year.
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Pittsburgh Pirates, Paul Skenes, #30, reacts in the field before a game against the Cincinnati reds in PNC Park. (Charles Leclaire-USA Today Sports)
The card appeared in the Chrome 2024 Chrome updates, and caused a considerable offer of Pittsburgh Pirates de Skenes.
A pair of premium season tickets of the pirates for three decades, an opportunity to play a softball game in the field, a match and greeting with Skenes and autographed t -shirts were among the team’s offerings.
Skenes’s girlfriend, LSU’s gymnast, Livvy Dunne, sweetened the offer by offering the card to the card a game in her personal suite: the dream of an 11 -year -old boy.
However, the child and the family rejected everything, choosing to put it in auction through fans.
The signed card presents the MLB Patch Skenes debut that he used in his first MLB game on May 11 of last year, when he beat 102 MPH and struck out seven in four work tickets.
Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Skenes, #30, throws against the New York Yankees during the first entry in the Yankee Stadium. (Brad Penner-Imagn images)
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That was just a preview for Skenes, which launched an effectiveness of 1.96 for 23 openings this season, the lowest for any rookie with at least 20 beginnings that date back to 1920, according to ESPN. It was also the lowest era in baseball this season among the pitchers with at least 130 entries released.
The sale absolutely demolished the previous record of the rookie debut card; The Anthony Volpe card was sold for only $ 150,000 last year, which means that the Skenes card was almost 10 times more than Volpe’s.
Upon entering Thursday, the offers had reached $ 900,000 and 64 total offers were made, but it is not yet known who bought it.
Paul Skenes, #30 of Pittsburgh’s pirates, offers a launch in the third entry during the game against New York Mets in PNC Park on July 5, 2024 in Pittsburgh. (Justin Berl/Getty images)
All fans of the fans of the card will be donated to the Los Angeles fire relief funds, and the rest goes to the family, which will put a good part of it in their children’s university funds.
Scott Thompson and Chantz Martin de Pak Gazette contributed to this publication.
