Repack Haiku #359 (Dimitri Young)

To help charity

Sold rookie card collection

All graded mint 10!

 

2002 Upper Deck Ovation
#19 Dimitri Young

  

Young was once offered $2000 to attend a card show, but when he saw a PSA 8 graded Pete Rose rookie card, he asked for that instead. That started him down the road to collecting graded cards, and his focus became PSA 10 graded rookie cards. To fund a baseball school and non-profit organization, he auctioned off about 500 cards along with some other memorabilia. The auction raised over $2.4 million dollars, with a mint 1955 Topps Roberto Clemente fetching a record $432,690.

Sources: Former Major leaguer Dmitri Young is Unlikely Owner of Huge Rookie Baseball Card Collection (Yahoo!) and Dmitri Young Rookie Card Collection Brings $2.4 Million (Sports Collectors Daily)