One of the few surviving tickets from Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech July 4, 1939, sold for $164,700 at Heritage Auctions on Saturday night.
The ticket stub is graded PSA 1.5 and is one of nine graded by PSA. Four have been graded higher.
Tickets from Gehrig’s iconic speech, which he delivered to a crowd of 60,000 at Yankee Stadium, are among the most significant in the ticket collecting hobby, right up there with Jackie Robinson’s major-league debut.
It is rare to see copies up for auction. Heritage sold a PSA 2 example for $108,000 in February 2022.
In 2014, before the prices for graded tickets took off, the sole autographed copy of a ticket from that day sold for $95,600.
Will Stern is a reporter and editor for cllct, the premier company for collectible culture.