a derek jeter rookie card has sold for 99100 the highest price ever paid for a modernday baseball card brent huigens ceo of pwcc which conducted the ebay auction confirmed to espn on friday that winning bidder adrian proietti had paid the company for the card in 2008 i was offered a psa 10 for 25000 proietti said i passed on it i think the 99100 is still a very good deal proietti said the purchase rounds out his obsession for the set a 1993 upper deck sp that began 25 years ago back then proietti said he was looking for the don mattingly card but when he got back into the game 10 years ago he started buying boxes of the set to try to get the derek jeter rookie card out of the packs he got more than 20 jeters but could never get the one that would grade out as a perfect 10 from the premiere hobby card grader psadna the fact that its a foil card makes it especially challenging according to psadnas population report on the card they have graded 8308 of those cards with an 8 out of 10 560 as a 9 out of 10 and only 22 as a 10 out of 10 people have a much harder time understanding the nuance in the grading of modernday cards huigens said there isnt the same difference from an 8 to a 9 to a 10 in modern cards as there is with vintage huigens said he believes collectors will soon start to realize the premiums being paid for the best grade of modernday cards as they have with the old stuff a modernday card is anything from 1986 or later three modernday cards have been sold publicly for more a lebron james rookie card sold for 312000 in 2016 and two tom brady rookie cards sold for 250000 and more than 100000 this year proietti paid nearly double the previous record for the card which was 54576 set just a week before proeitti agreed to buy his he said he paid a premium since the auction was conducted by pwcc which will sell more baseball cards than anyone on ebay in 2018 proietti said he initially plans on enjoying the card but could see himself putting it into a safety deposit box at some point