A baseball card collector found the hit of a lifetime at a Goodwill store.
Beau Thompson, better known as One Million Cubs due to his extensive Chicago Cubs card collection, recently bought a 700-pound pallet of sports cards for $700 at a Goodwill store in Wisconsin, according to cllct.com.
This collector found a MIKE TROUT card worth $10,000 at his local Goodwill!!@onemillioncubs recently bought a storage box of baseball cards from Goodwill…
— Topps (@Topps) October 9, 2024
When he was going through the cards, he found an ultra-rare Mike Trout autograph card from 2009 — yes, that’s 2 years… pic.twitter.com/PEKucJ0c8Q
While scouring through the boxes, Thompson discovered a 2009 Bowman Chrome Mike Trout Draft Picks and Prospects Autograph Blue Refractor card worth $10,000!
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Thompson originally thought it was a reprint card, but much to his surprise, it wasn’t.
“The odds are one-in-a-million that this is going to be the original card,” Thompson explained to cllct.com. “Here’s another Trout reprint … I flipped it over, and it doesn’t say reprint. After that initial thought process, I’m thinking that I’m actually looking through 2009 Bowman, and this is 2009 Bowman.”
Thompson is planning on getting the card graded by PSA and then will sell it. A PSA 9 version of this Trout card scored $15,000 in August.
“I don’t deal in cards like this,” Thompson noted. “My business is low-end. You know, $100 and under, and it’s few and far between on $100 cards. It’s a ton of $1 and $2 cards with volume.”
This isn’t the first time Thompson has pulled a high-end Trout card from a pallet of sports cards. In 2021, he found a 2011 Topps Update Mike Trout rookie card that he ended up selling for $600.
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