Mickey Mantle, make way for Sam Zoldak. The Mick's cards are still bringing big dollars online, but don't dismiss those pesky low pop cards, Hall of Famers in high grade or complete sets. That's a brief summary of the vintage sports card market over the last seven days. With the catalog auction market relatively quiet, Sports Collectors Daily tracked the top-selling … [Read more...]
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Robert Griffin III Rookie Cards Light Up eBay
It was a good day to own Robert Griffin III rookie cards. The NFL's #2 overall draft pick had a debut quarterbacks only dream about on Sunday, leading the Washington Redskins to a win over the New Orleans Saints and leading eBay sellers straight to their computers. Dozens, perhaps hundreds of Griffin cards sold from a point Sunday afternoon when it became obvious he was … [Read more...]
Buying and Selling Outlets for Sports Card Collectors
by Shane Elsberry Sports card collectors, both avid and casual, know how eBay changed the way cards and memorabilia are bought, sold, and collected. It remains the first stop for collectors looking to complete a base set, collect a particular team or player, or pick up that game used or auto item they have been trying to find. It also sets the market value for … [Read more...]
eBay to Offer Free Listings For 4 Months
Representatives from eBay came to the National Sports Collectors Convention to chat with buyers and sellers and to announce the company's upcoming promotion. "This is an opportunity to hang out with people that are kind of living and breathing every single day and to get ideas and bounce things off them that we’re thinking about doing," said Gene Cook, who oversees eBay's … [Read more...]
Feds Nail SoCal Man in Fake Babe Ruth Glove Scheme
A southern California man has admitted to federal authorities he cooked up a story to sell a 19th century baseball glove that he claimed was owned by a young Babe Ruth. Irving Scheib surrendered Thursday in New York and pled guilty to one count of wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Robert P. Patterson. According to the Complaint and Information filed in Manhattan federal … [Read more...]
2012 Topps Chrome Baseball: Shine On
by Chris Harris Pitchers and catchers have yet to report, but is hasn’t stopped Topps from taking the wraps off a product that won’t be released until late August: 2012 Topps Chrome Baseball. As with previous Topps Chrome sets, the base set will consist of chromium-stock reprints from the Topps flagship, and each 24-pack Hobby box will yield two autographs. The base set … [Read more...]
2012 Topps Prime 9 Program Opens with Willie Mays
Topps has announced that redemption card #1 in the 2012 HOME RUN LEGENDS PRIME 9 program is Willie Mays. Every week (for nine straight weeks), Topps will announce a “Prime 9 Player of the Week”. Collectors holding the corresponding Prime 9 Redemption card for that week can bring the card into their participating local HTA store and redeem it for an exclusive limited … [Read more...]
Ramblings: Will 1099 Forms from Paypal Lead to Card Show Comeback?
by Rich Klein Like many of today's hobbyists, I am an avid reader of various Internet sports collecting chat/message boards. There is so much information to be gleamed from reading these boards. This week, one of the most interesting topics concerned the threads devoted to 1099's being sent from PayPal. The IRS says you'll get one if you received more than $20,000 in gross … [Read more...]
Super Bowl 46 Program is 246 Pages
You don't have to spend $2,500 on a ticket to buy the official Super Bowl 46 program. The NFL has continued its tradition of offering a Super size program for Super Sunday this year and as in recent years, you could find them online at least a week before kickoff. The league has partnered with H.O. Zimman to publish this year's program, producing the "early edition" that's … [Read more...]
Wagner Card Drawing Attention as Alternative Investment
Wall Street doesn't mess with sports memorabilia too much. When it comes to money, though, the financial world is all ears. After all, you need to be pretty rich to scoff at a little piece of cardboard that's often sold for several hundred thousand or a couple of million dollars. Going back to the 1970s, if not before, the T206 Honus Wagner card is sports collecting's poster … [Read more...]
