Honus Wagner – T206
The most valuable and famous baseball card of all time must be the Honus Wagner card in the T206 set. It is pretty much a legend in the card collecting circles! Like other cards during this era, the 1911 card was made by a tobacco company as a method to improve the sales of their cigarette products. However, the slugger himself wanted to pull the card for unknown reasons. It is thought that he did not want kids to buy cigarettes just to look for his card. However, there was a research that revealed that the dispute had more to do with the royalties. At any rate, there are not a lot of these cards on the market. This is the reason it is considered the “Holy Grail” of baseball cards! In 2016, one of them sold for $3.3 million.
Honus Wagner – T206
Chipper Jones – 1991 Desert Shield
One of the most famous MLB players in the ‘90s, Chipper Jones was best known as the third baseman of the Atlanta Braves. The most valuable card of his is linked to an iconic moment of that decade. In 1991, Topps came out with a special version of the base set from the season, which came with “Desert Sheild” holograms. This was only available to soldiers involved in Operation Desert Storm. It included a Jones rookie card! If you have a copy of the hologram, you can get hundreds of bucks for it.
Chipper Jones – 1991 Desert Shield