Aaron Judge’s $5.2M Superfractor Makes Baseball Card History

Yankees Superstar Enters Rarified Air

Date: Mar 12, 2026

Topics: Aaron Judge, Baseball, Cards and Culture, Trending

Length: 654 Words

Reading Time: ~4 Minutes

A monumental moment in The Hobby has seen Aaron Judge join true collecting royalty. On March 12, 2026, Fanatics Collect announced the brokering of a $5.2 million private sale for Judge’s 2013 Bowman Chrome Draft 1/1 Superfractor Autograph card.

The most expensive sale of a baseball card since Shohei Ohtani’s 2025 Topps Chrome Baseball 1/1 Gold Logoman MVP Patch Auto went for $3 million in December of last year, Judge’s early Bowman card now sits alongside some of The Hobby’s most coveted grails.

Aaron Judge’s 2013 Bowman Chrome Draft Superfractor Autograph 1/1 sold privately for $5.2 million, setting a new record for a modern baseball card. The sale vaulted Judge into the upper tier of all-time baseball card sales, behind only iconic vintage grails such as the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle and the T206 Honus Wagner.

BREAKING: We're excited to announce that we just brokered a $5,200,000.00 private sale for the 2013 Aaron Judge Bowman Chrome Draft 1/1 Superfractor Autograph.

This marks a new all-time record sale for any modern baseball card.

Judge joins Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, and Mickey… pic.twitter.com/a2zF3JxE2G
— Fanatics Collect (@FanaticsCollect) March 12, 2026

How far has Judge come? The previous sale of this card came in May 2022, selling for $324,000. In 2020, the card went for $161,130. Today? Per Card Ladder, at $5.2 million, it’s the fourth-biggest sale of a baseball card in the history of The Hobby.

In honor of Judge joining their ranks, let’s take a look back at the biggest baseball card sales of all-time.

• PSA Mint 9 example sold for $4.212 million in july 2021

Biggest Baseball Card Sales FAQs

What baseball card just sold for $5.2 million?
- Aaron Judge’s 2013 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks Autographs Superfractor 1/1 sold in a private deal brokered by Fanatics Collect on March 12, 2026.
Why is this Aaron Judge sale such a big deal?
- The $5.2 million price made it the highest publicly reported sale for a modern baseball card, topping the previous modern record held by Mike Trout’s 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Superfractor Auto 1/1 at $3.936 million.
How much did this Aaron Judge card sell for before?
- The same card sold for $324,000 in May 2022, after an earlier $161,130 sale in 2020, showing a massive jump in value over time.
What are the most valuable baseball cards mentioned in this piece?
- Major grails include the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, 1909 T206 Honus Wagner, 2013 Bowman Chrome Draft Aaron Judge Superfractor Auto 1/1, 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth, and 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth. The Mantle remains the all-time baseball record-holder at $12.6 million.

Key Facts

Headline sale: Aaron Judge 2013 Bowman Chrome Draft Superfractor Auto 1/1 sold for $5.2 million
Sale type: Private sale brokered by Fanatics Collect
Why it matters: New record for a modern baseball card
Previous same-card sale: $324,000 in May 2022
Previous modern benchmark: Shohei Ohtani’s Gold Logoman auto sold for $3 million in December 2025.
All-time baseball card benchmark: 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle at $12.6 million.