One of the best 1968 Topps Baseball sets ever put together joins a stack of 1952 Topps cards and other vintage stars in Mile High Card Company’s upcoming catalog auction.
Modern Sports Card News
Brief Box Break: 2022 Prizm Football Hobby
A Hall of Famer and a stack of current running backs show up but are they enough to justify the current cost of a box of 2022 Prizm Football? Tony digs into one of the hobby’s most popular products.
Sports Memorabilia News
SCP Auctions to Offer Steve Sax Collection
Steve Sax has consigned his two World Series rings, five All-Star rings, his 1981 World Series jersey and other memorabilia to SCP Auctions with some of the proceeds going to the foundation named in honor of his late son.
Business News
Mint Collective/eBay Auction Features Vintage, Modern Icons
There’s a new online auction underway to coincide with the Mint Collective. Cards of Hall of Famers, current superstars and a variety of memorabilia are part of the event being conducted on eBay.
Industry News
Fanatics, MLB Announce Player Worn Debut Patches That Will Turn Into Rookie Cards
A “debut” patch will be worn on the jerseys of MLB rookies, removed and turned into a baseball card.
Around the Hobby
Card Back Q&A: Mervyn Fernandez Talks Swervin’, Hall of Fame CFL Career, Transition to the NFL
From a record smashing career in Canada discussed on his CFL issues to an eventful transition to the NFL, former receiver Mervyn Fernandez dishes on what’s written on the back of some of his football cards.
- Notes: Newly Discovered JFK Signed Ball Consigned; Bowman Heritage ’22 (and ’21) Released; More
- TTM This Week: WBC Impact on Prices; Autograph Returns
- Mervyn Fernandez Q&A: CFL Cards, Memorable First Autograph Request, Missing Collection
- Phil Olsen Talks Rookie Card (and Stamp), Locker Room Fan Mail, Sports Camps in Hawaii
Shop Talk
Shop Talk: PSA Return; 2020 Contenders Football Left Behind; What’s Hot–and Not
A PSA order is back at the shop, one collector’s pricey box rip is a downer…and chronicling sales at the shop as March heads for the finish line.
- Shop Talk: Redemption Ridiculousness, Big In-Store Spenders, Prizm Football Drops
- Shop Talk: End of the Line for the Big Collection, Sudden Walmart Baseball Card Sales, Thin Margins
- Shop Talk: New Arrivals; Lost and Found; Vintage Time Capsule Walk-In
- Shop Talk: Taking Ownership, Communication is Key, Piles of Product
Editor’s Blog
Editor’s Blog: Fanatics Takes Its First Big Cut
Some thoughts on the player worn MLB Debut patches as Fanatics and its partners at MLB and the MLBPA offer their first major innovation in the trading card space.
- Notes: Booker Fan Gets Surprise; Ashe RC Record; REA on Display; Volpe Goes from Autograph Seeker to Yankee; Ohtani Autos
- Notes: Giannis, Curry Jerseys at Auction; Topps WBC Cards; More
- Notes: Fanatics Collectibles Team Visiting Shows; Bat Auction; Randy Johnson to Talk Photos, in Deal with Topps
- 50 Years Later: Memories of the First WHA Trading Card Set and the Deal That Gave the League Its Big Star
Popular Stories
Sports Card Addiction Is Slowly Coming Out of the Shadows
A Homeland Security agent illegally moonlighted as a delivery driver to pay for his habit. Other collectors say they became obsessed with buying and gambled away thousands. The dark side of “the hobby” has some talking about when a love of trading cards becomes an addiction.
- Rookies Drive Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey
- PSA Now Accepting Remainder of 1980s Star Company Basketball Cards
- King of Collectibles Netflix Series Now Has Debut Date
- Luke the Cardist Brings Bright Colors to Custom Art Cards
- First Basketball Inserts: 1969-70 Topps Rulers and Those That Never Were
- East Coast Collector Says He Lost $300k to Man Charged in Sports Card Fraud Case
- Card Shop Q&A: Baseball Card Connection Thrives in Small Town Middle America
- Dibbs Marketplace Ceases Operations
- Shop Talk: End of the Line for the Big Collection, Sudden Walmart Baseball Card Sales, Thin Margins
- 2022-23 NBA Rookie Card Roundup, 100 Most Watched eBay Auctions
- Cops Chase Down Suspected Burbank Sports Cards Burglars
- New York Man Enters Plea Deal In Wire Fraud Case That Scammed Collectors Out Of $33K In Sports Cards
- 50 Years Later: Memories of the First WHA Trading Card Set and the Deal That Gave the League Its Big Star
- 82-Year-Old Colorado Man Charged in $800,000 Sports Card Fraud Scheme
- Modern Patch Card Guarantees Bear Little Resemblance to Hobby’s First Jersey Cards
- Pinnacle’s Wild Weekend: Bobby Hull, The Commish and Massive Layoffs
- Bullpen Burbank Burglarized
- Shop Talk: New Arrivals; Lost and Found; Vintage Time Capsule Walk-In
- 10 Mystifyingly Tough Living Baseball Autographs
- Jordan, J-Rod Top List of Most Graded Cards in February