If you love Super 70s Sports on Twitter, you’ll probably get a kick out of this. Topps has teamed up with Ricky Cobb, the man with the comedic tweets on nostalgia, for a new baseball card set. The Topps X Super 70s Baseball set released Wednesday as on on-demand product, available through the Topps online store. Cobb turned his love for old school sports and … [Read more...]
Westin Reeves Joins Andy Broome to Lead CSG’s Grading Team
Certified Collectibles Group, which is building its sports and non-sports trading card authentication and grading service under the Certified Sports Guaranty brand, has hired Westin Reeves to head up the modern card side of the new business. Reeves had been working in a similar grading role at Beckett. As we reported earlier this week, he’ll join Andy … [Read more...]
Signed Babe Ruth 1933 Goudey Cards from “Uncle Jimmy” Sell for Over $725,000
Wheatland's October 2020 auction concluded over the weekend and, unsurprisingly, a pair of autographed Babe Ruth 1933 Goudey cards once again led the way. Part of the famous "Uncle Jimmy Collection," the two Ruth cards sold for a combined $725,700. The biggest prize of the two was an immaculate signed card of Ruth's iconic No. 181 card from the set. The card received a … [Read more...]
Upper Deck Bringing Golf Cards Back; Artifacts 1st Off the Tee
The wait for a new golf trading card product will come to an end next year. Upper Deck announced Monday it would be launching three golf releases in 2021, including Artifacts, which will launch the series at an as yet undetermined date in the spring. “Collectors have been begging us to bring golf cards back for years,” said Upper Deck’s Sports Brand Manager Paul … [Read more...]
Notes: Andy Broome Joins CSG; eBay Tallies LeBron Sales After Title; Jordan PMG Auction, More
Andy Broome, the senior vintage card grader at Beckett since 2004, has left for a similar role at Certified Sports Guaranty, which has been adding staff in recent months in preparation for its upcoming launch. CSG is a newly forming division of Certified Collectibles Group, a long-time authenticator of coins, comics and other collectibles based in Florida. In July, … [Read more...]
Fanatics Holiday Auction to Include Vintage Rookie Cards, Ruth Autographs
Fanatics continues its rapid move into the sports card and memorabilia auction market, with its 2020 Holiday event set to open on Wednesday. The online platform will include high-grade vintage and modern rookie cards, autographs from baseball icons and game-used memorabilia. Over 200 lots will be offered. A long-time major player in the online retail market for … [Read more...]
National Taking 2022 Convention to Atlantic City
Atlantic City will get another shot to host the National Sports Collectors Convention. After getting word a month ago that the I-X Center in Cleveland would be closing for good, the NSCC's board of directors scrambled back to the same venue that was supposed to host this year's show. The 2022 event will take place at the Atlantic City Convention Center, with … [Read more...]
Editor’s Blog: Rising Card Costs Creating an Unhealthy Gap?
It’s the sports card hobby on steroids. Money is everywhere. Nearly every product the card companies crank out is selling. The biggest complaint from hobby shop owners isn’t that nothing is selling. It’s that everything is selling so fast they can’t get more of it. Good breakers who can secure cases of hot products are making a small fortune. I hear some … [Read more...]
Notes: More on Miller T206 Collection; CU Stock Soars; PSA 10 Bird-Magic, More
Bidding is humming along in the auction for a high-grade T206 set owned by collector E. Powell Miller. The Detroit area attorney’s collection is getting an auction all to itself and rightfully so. It turns out he had a Honus Wagner and the Doyle variation but sold both of them to collector Ryan Hotchkiss not long ago. He won’t be completely T206-less when the auction is … [Read more...]
Part 4 of “Uncle Jimmy Collection” Includes More Ruth, Gehrig Signed Cards
Wheatland Auctions is offering another selection of material from the remarkable collection of "Uncle Jimmy" Micioni in its current online catalog. The late New Jersey collector's stash included hundreds of autographed baseball cards dating back to the 1930s including multiple high quality examples of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Goudey issues. Some sold this … [Read more...]