Nice return on this 1951 Bowman Willie Mays #305 PSA NM-MT 8, which sold for $228,000 in a late-January Heritage auction. Heritage touted that just nine unqualified examples of Mays’ rookie have ever graded higher than this one.
As a 20-year-old in 1951, Mays slugged 20 home runs, drove in 68, collected 22 doubles, five triples and batted .274 to win the NL Rookie of the Year award.