Wayne Gretzky Card Reaches $264,000 in May Auction

wayne gretzky’s 1979 O-Pee-Chee rookie card is drawing a $264,000 bid in Fanatics Collect’s May Premier Auction. The PSA 9 copy with a 10 Auto is one of the rarest signed examples tied to “The Great One,” and it is already pushing far past the level most collectors ever see on a public listing.

Gretzky’s PSA 9 card

The card is graded PSA 9, and PSA has graded only 95 1979 O-Pee-Chee Gretzky cards at that level. This auction lot is the only signed PSA 9 example in the group, a detail that puts it in a separate lane from the rest of the population report.

Only two PSA 10 examples of the 1979 O-Pee-Chee Gretzky card have been graded. The signed card in this auction has never been sold publicly, which leaves collectors with almost no prior sales history to use as a guide when the bidding moves higher.

The Great One at TNT

Gretzky is also working the Stanley Cup Playoffs as a studio analyst for TNT. That keeps his name in front of hockey viewers while his rookie card builds value in a different corner of the sport.

The card was produced in 1979, and the auction is giving one of hockey’s most iconic cards a fresh price check in May 2025. With a current bid of $264,000, the lot already has enough momentum to test how far scarcity, grade, and the autograph can carry a Gretzky item on a public stage.

May Premier Auction

For collectors, the practical number is the current bid: $264,000. For anyone tracking elite hockey memorabilia, the more revealing number is 1/1, the only signed 1979 O-Pee-Chee Gretzky grade-9 card PSA says it has never sold publicly, and that is the sort of profile that can keep a lot moving as the May Premier Auction continues.