One of the few surviving tickets from Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech July 4, 1939, is up for auction at Heritage with an estimate of $50,000.
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.
Bidding on the lot is slated to open later this month.
Will Stern is a reporter and editor for cllct, the premier company for collectible culture.