Bidding is underway in Goldin’s March Elite Auction, which includes game worn jerseys and cards from a few guys you might have heard of.
One dates to Giannis Antetokounmpo’s rookie season.
The twice-signed green Milwaukee Bucks road model comes with MeiGray authentication that dates it to a Dec. 20, 2013 game at Cleveland in which the young Greek Freak scored just six points in 22 minutes.
Jerseys worn by Kobe Bryant and LeBron James are among the other game-used items in the 480-lot auction.
Among the top trading cards: a Michael Jordan/Larry Bird/Magic Johnson Game-Used Triple Logoman, a Steph Curry Panini Rookie Patch and a Trevor Lawrence Panini National Treasures Rookie Patch, each of which have already crossed the six-figure bid threshold.
Several higher end unopened boxes are part of the sale including a 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee Hockey box of 48 packs and a 2003-04 Upper Deck Exquisite box.
Bidding runs through March 29.
On Wednesday night, the jersey Shohei Ohtani was wearing when he hit his 100th career home run sold for $99,600 in Goldin’s Game-Used Auction. The jersey carried Ohtani’s autograph and an inscription in Japanese.
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Topps has produced its final group of cards from the World Baseball Classic through its NOW platform.
There are individual cards from the championship game available until midday Friday and a 12-card set featuring players on the Japanese team that edged the U.S. that’s available for a week Parallels of the set’s base cards are randomly inserted.
You can see them here.
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2022 Topps Chrome McDonald’s All-American Basketball is out—and there are both blaster and hobby boxes. Hobby boxes guarantee two autographs; blasters have exclusive parallels.
These are the players who appeared in last year’s game, most of whom are now in college. They’re available here.
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A jersey worn by Steph Curry earlier this year is on the auction block, with proceeds going to charity.
Curry wore the City Edition jersey in a game against the Phoenix Suns on January 10.
He played 31 minutes and registered 24 points. “1.10.23” is handwritten on the jock tag.
Proceeds will benefit the Golden State Warriors Community Foundation and its annual grantmaking program to support educational equity for Bay Area youth.
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MeiGray’s latest goal puck auction is underway with 61 of them on the block until April 5.
Pucks that resulted in goals scored by Jake Guentzel, David Pastrnak, Jaden Schwartz, Leon Draisaitl and Evgeny Kuznetsov are among the listings.
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Big league players discussed signing autographs for fans at spring training.