FILE - Jackie Robinson, infielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers, swings his bat in this action pose at Ebbett's Field in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 9, 1951. A plaque honoring baseball legend Jackie Robinson that was vandalized in Georgia is coming to Kansas City's Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to be put on display. The sign was erected in 2001 outside the birthplace of Robinson near Cairo, Georgia. Community members there discovered last year that someone had shot the plaque multiple times. (AP Photo File)AP Photo File

Michael Jordan, Jackie Robinson Debut Ticket Stubs Sell for Record Prices at Auction

Rob GoldbergFeb 27, 2022

A ticket stub from Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers set a record for the most expensive collectable ticket in history, via Dan Hajducky of ESPN.

The ticket, from Opening Day in 1947, sold for $480,000 on Sunday at Heritage Auctions.

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It comes as a second ticket from the same auction also surpassed the previous record of $264,000.

A full ticket from Michael Jordan's first game with the Chicago Bulls in 1984 sold for $468,000 on Sunday. Unlike the checked ticket from Jordan's debut that set the previous record, the latest sale featured an unused ticket.

The seller, Mike Cole, said he was a freshman at Northwestern University when he was gifted two tickets. He didn't find anyone to go to the game with him, so he went himself and saved the other.

"He was 18, in a new city, and no one took him up on going to the game," said Chris Ivy, director of sports auctions at Heritage Auctions. "[In his pocket], it turns from an old memory [into] a lottery ticket."

Both the Dodgers and Bulls tickets were graded by Professional Sports Authenticators before hitting the auction block.