Mark Zuckerberg's old camp counselor just sold the Meta CEO's Little League baseball card for $105,000
- Mark Zuckerberg's Little League baseball card sold for $105,000 on Wednesday evening.
- Zuckerberg's ex-camp counselor, Allie Tarantino, sold the card at a Comic Connect auction.
Mark Zuckerberg's Little League baseball card sold for $105,000 at an auction on Wednesday evening.
Market Watch reported the news.
The baseball card was created by the Facebook founder in 1992 and given to a camp counselor, Allie Tarantino, at a day camp in White Plains, New York, that Zuckerberg attended.
Tarantino told Market Watch he originally asked an eight-year-old Zuckerberg to sign the card to make him feel like a star.
"It's such a weird, one-of-a-kind piece," Tarantino told Market Watch before the auction. Tarantino said he was planning to use the money he made from the card to pay down his mortgage and fund his children's education.
Stephen Fishler, CEO of Comic Connect, which organized the auction, told Market Watch that Zuckerberg had given the sale of the card his blessing.
Comic Connect did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside normal working hours.
In August, Zuckerberg posted a photo of the baseball card on Instagram announcing that it would soon become an NFT. According to his trading card, he weighed 48 pounds and had a .920 batting average.
This month, fellow tech entrepreneur, Elon Musk, also had memorabilia from his youth auctioned off. Musk's college girlfriend, Jennifer Gwynne, auctioned off photos of the young billionaire for $165,000 on September 15.