Tom Brady’s professional baseball career was over before it truly started, but people are still putting a price tag on it.
A Brady autographed Montreal Expos baseball card recently sold at auction for a whopping $158,600.
According to Goldin, the card is 1/1 and is the holy grail of collectible cards.
“With its crisp, youthful image of the league-altering superstar, hard-signed autograph, and dazzling, opulent SuperFractor visual effect, here’s a truly laudatory “grail” collectible that presents a player, who played at the very height of his sport, in the very height of exclusivity,” the website describes.
Brady, who you more than likely know for his illustrious NFL career, was drafted by the Expos in the 18th round in 1995 out of Junipero Serra in San Mateo, Calif.
The future NFL Hall of Famer was a pretty decent catcher and, John Hughes, the scout who discovered him said he could have gone in the second round if he didn’t already have a scholarship to play football at Michigan. Hughes also believed Brady had a decent chance to make it to The Show.
The scouting report on Brady had him as a solid, “good-looking” hitter.
Another Hall of Famer … of the baseball variety, Pedro Martinez, believed Brady’s presence was so prominent, the Expos could have remained in Montreal before ultimately moving to Washington D.C.
Martinez also believed the two could have combined to make a solid battery with some no-hitters and perfect games attached to their names.
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Jess is a baseball fan with Reno, Nev. roots residing in the Bay Area. She is the host of "Short and to the Point" and is also a broadcaster with the Oakland A's Radio Network. She previously worked for MLB.com and NBC Sports Bay Area.