August 30, 2021 would have been Ted Williams’ 103rd birthday. The Splendid Splinter was without argument one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived. Many of his baseball techniques from the […]
PSA’s #1 Shohei Ohtani Rookie Set of 59 Cards Sees Strong Auction
Shohei Ohtani has become one of the most popular and most dominant baseball players in America. The Los Angeles Angels’ super-star is frequently mentioned alongside Babe Ruth for his pitching and hitting […]
What Will Card Prices Do When Tom Brady Breaks Drew Brees’ 80,358 Passing Yard Record?
Sports card collectors love their rookie cards. They particularly love those rookie cards when it coms to the players that the greatest of all-time, or the GOATs. In professional football, Tom Brady […]
1957 Topps Football Rookie Challenge: Bart Starr vs. Johnny Unitas
Every decade has its share of great quarterbacks. The 1950s ushered in two generational greats as Bart Starr and Johnny Unitas took over. They both played from the second half of the […]
Why the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players Signed Lithograph Valuations Vary Wildly
Having multiple signatures on sports collectibles can actually be worth less than the cumulative value of all the individual players. This of course is dependent upon many factors. And some multi-signed items […]
Mbappe, Messi, Ronaldo High Card Price Risks Around Contract Negotiations
Kylian Mbappe is among the new generation of the hottest soccer players that sports card collectors have been buying up. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are already very well established superstars in […]
Kobe Bryant NFTs on Cryptograph – The Making of a New Model?
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) keep evolving. The digitization of collectibles has been a hard sell for many collectors and investors, but as of this time there was $285 million worth of NFT transactions […]
Tom Brady’s Rookie Cards Keep Shattering Record Prices
There has been a lot of news in the sports collectibles industry over the month of August. One issue which has not abated is that record prices for the top grades of […]
The Top 10 Baseball Rookie Cards from 1950 to 1955
The 1950s was a magical time in America. The pain of World War 2 was fading and the economy was booming. What would become the Baby Boomers were also starting to enter […]
Miguel Cabrera Rookie Card Price Action Into 500 Homers and 3,000 Hits
Fewer than 30 baseball players in Major League Baseball have managed to hit 500 home runs in their career. Miguel Cabrera became the 28th MLB baseball player to join the 500 home […]
Should George Washington’s Signature Be Worth More Than Babe Ruth’s Autograph?
Sometimes sports and history collide. Two iconic American signatures that may comparable to collectors of history and baseball would have to be Babe Ruth and George Washington. This is the first President […]
Massive T206 Ty Cobb Collection Breaks the Bank at Auction
Breaking the bank has many connotations in life, but simply being priced more than you can afford is one of the go-to uses of the phrase. The T206 set is littered with […]
The Future of Baseball Cards as Topps, Mudrick and MLB Part Ways
Well, sometimes industries change rapidly. Just ask The Topps Company and Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation II (“MUDS”) as news has been issued by both parties that their pending Special Purpose Acquisition Company […]
How Much Will You Pay To Own Tiger Woods’ Personal Putter?
Like any sport, collecting the athlete’s equipment used to win a key game or event with can be quite valuable. A baseball bat for a milestone home run is one item, but […]
Honus Wagner T206 Breaks Another Record at REA ($6.6 Million)
The August 2021 auction for Robert Edward Auctions has ended. There were many hot vintage cards up for grabs, but yet again the T206 Honus Wagner has set another record. As of […]
The Top 10 Rookie Baseball Cards of the 1960s
The 1960s was a pivotal time in American history. It wasn’t the “Mom, Baseball and Apple Pie” times like the prior decade but baseball was still the top sport in America. It […]
Restored T206 Honus Wagner Looks Unique Ahead of Sale
The T206 Honus Wagner card from 1909 is perhaps the one baseball card that every sports collector knows about. That’s also true even for those who are not into sports collectibles. The […]
Collecting Olympic Medals Is Harder Than You Think
The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games have ended and 113 new metals are forever associated with the United States. Olympic medals are symbols representing years of training that forever carry a story from […]
Bad Lessons of Over-Grading Your Cards
Card collectors now know that any card from the modern era has to be kept in pristine condition for the card to ever have any value. Vintage cards can be in rough […]
Jackie Robinson Autograph Cards and Signed Ball Selling for High Premiums
Sports collectors have paid handsome premiums for vintage Jackie Robinson baseball cards in recent years. The graded examples can come at a large premium. What is not so common is to find […]