A one-of-a-kind Caitlin Clark autograph rookie card sold in a Goldin auction for $366,000 on Saturday night. The previous record sale for a women’s sports card was held by a Serena Williams card that sold for $266,400 in 2022.
For more than a year now, Clark’s rarest cards have achieved progressively higher values, repeatedly setting new records for both her cards and any women’s basketball card. The last record high came in December, when Clark’s 2024 Panini Select WNBA Gold Vinyl autograph rookie card, also a one-of-one, sold for $234,850. That was still short of the 2003 NetPro Serena Williams autograph patch card (featuring a piece of one of her match-worn tennis outfits in the card) that sold four years ago, though.
But on Saturday, Clark’s 2024 Panini Prizm WNBA Gold Vinyl 1/1 autograph rookie card became the new most valuable women’s sports card of all-time in convincing fashion.
Why did this specific Clark card sell for so much? Panini’s Prizm set is the exclusive WNBA trading card license holder’s most popular, so the rarest Clark autograph rookie card in that set was all but certain to become her most valuable one once it was pulled from a pack and put up for sale. The three previous highest selling Clark cards are all from Select, another of the three…
