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Notes: Judge Sets Topps Now Record; Rare Trout Card; Upper Deck and Czech; Indy Show

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Not only did Aaron Judge break the record for most home runs in a season by an American Leaguer – he also broke the record for the biggest selling Topps Now card in the program’s seven-year history.
The card sold 91,685 prints in 24 hours, topping the record previously held by the viral Bernie Sanders card, which sold 91,169 copies over the course of one week.

One of Mike Trout’s best cards is on the market. The fifth of five 2009 Bowman Chrome Red Refractor Trout autograph cards is among the top items in the PWCC’s Premier Auction.

Graded BGS 9.5 it’s already at $440,000 with bidding set to run through October 20.

The Red Refractor is the second rarest offering of Trout from this infamous set — it sits behind only the 1-of-1 Superfractor.

Where is Upper Deck seeing the largest growth of its hockey cards overseas?

The Czech Republic, according to these comments from Mike Phillips, the company’s VP of Sales and Marketing.

There was a sizeable crowd lined up to get into the Midwest Monster show in the Indianapolis area on Saturday morning, the second day of a two-day event at Best Choice Fieldhouse.  

It was J&J All-Star Sports’ second such event this year with the first held in June on the basketball hardwood.

The two-day event in Fishers, IN featured 375 tables.

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