{"id":605215,"date":"2026-03-04T06:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/605215\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:25:12","slug":"tom-seaver-1969-mets-world-series-ring-goes-for-over-850000-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/605215\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Seaver 1969 Mets World Series ring goes for over $850,000 at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 1969 World Series ring that once belonged to Mets legend Tom Seaver sold for more than $800,000 at an auction last weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dallas-based Heritage Auctions sold the piece of baseball memorabilia for $854,122, Newsday reported Tuesday evening<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Post first reported<\/a> in February that the World Series ring, along with nearly 200 items from Seaver\u2019s personal collection, was being sold at auction at Heritage Auctions\u2019 Winter Platinum Sports Catalog auction, which ran through March 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among the other items that had belonged to Seaver that were put up for auction were his 1992 Baseball Hall of Fame induction plaque.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newsday reported that the plaque sold for $170,800, while Seaver\u2019s 1973 Mets National League championship ring went for $201,300.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seaver\u2019s daughter Anne previously told The Post that his \u201c\u201969 ring was very hard to part with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had trouble deciding on that,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The items ended up being auctioned off after Anne and her mom, Nancy, went through Seaver\u2019s office and storage area in their California home.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver waves during a celebration of the 40th anniversary of their 1969 World Championship before the Mets played the Philadelphia Phillies in their MLB National League baseball game in New York August 22, 2009. REUTERS<\/p>\n

And it wasn\u2019t until the three-time Cy Young Award winner\u2019s death in 2020 that Anne realized how much her dad meant to Mets fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI never realized how much they loved him until I felt that love directed to me when he died. The support and kindness I got from these strangers made me realize that he is a huge part of these people\u2019s lives,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that\u2019s my personal reason for wanting to share something like the \u201969 ring. His fans loved him, truly. And that makes me love them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TomTom Seavers\u2019s 1969 World Series ring; 1992 Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Plaque presented to Tom Seaver. Heritage Auctions<\/p>\n

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The most expensive item auctioned off was a 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card that belonged to player and announcer Joe Garagiola.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The piece of baseball history went for $3.59 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 1969 World Series ring that once belonged to Mets legend Tom Seaver sold for more than $800,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[36617,5,1708,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,185,8095],"class_list":["post-605215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-auctions","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-hall-of-fame","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-sports","tag-tom-seaver"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116169483032473301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}