New York Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns sold a rare baseball card of Los Angeles Dodgers World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto for $72,000 at an auction this month.

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The one-of-one 2024 Topps Inception card, featuring Yamamoto’s signature and an MLB logo patch from a game-worn uniform, was sold online at Fanatics Collect . It was graded by Professional Sports Authenticator as a Gem Mint 10, which is “a virtually perfect card,” with “sharp corners, sharp focus and full original gloss,” according to PSA’s website .

The $72,000 auction price is the highest amount paid for a Yamamoto card to date, per MLB.com .

Towns, who regularly posts videos of himself opening sports cards packs on his YouTube channel, pulled the rare Yamamoto card during a reveal in Septe

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