"This is a very distinctive example of Babe Ruth's rookie card, universally regarded as one of the most significant cards in all of card collecting," Robert Edward Auctions wrote.
"Morehouse cards, today, are hard to come by, and this is the first time a Morehouse Ruth card has been sold at auction."
The baseball card, which started at $150,000 and received 36 bids, is from 1916, sold for $812,724 - over five times its starting bid.
The man from Danvers had 119 of them in his collection, including the one that just sold, which Robert Edward Auctions described as 'exceedingly rare.'
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