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Wayne Gretzky rookie card goes for $1.29 million, just another record for the Great One

Wayne Gretzky who holds 60 NHL records decided it was time to break another one 21 years after retiring. His 1979 O-Pee-Chee rookie card became the first hockey card to break the $1 million mark at $1.29.

“Gretzky is the greatest of all time,” said Chris Ivy of Heritage Auctions, which handled the sale. “This is his rookie card, and then add onto all that it’s O-Pee-Chee, which is the Canadian version, and is highly sought after.”

There are very few things in sports that get me emotional, I can easily recount them. The 1980 U.