Sports Collectors

    April 4, 2022

    PSA Parent Company to Open Vault, Gets $100 Million Investment as 100+ Graders Tackle Card Backlog

    PSA’s parent company is planning to offer a vault service for trading cards.  Collectors, the newly rebranded, shortened moniker for…
    January 30, 2022

    1993-94 Topps Finest Basketball Broke New Ground in Hoops Market

    1993-94 Topps Finest basketball was an upping of the ante in the sports card technological arms race right from the…
    January 22, 2022

    Notes: PSA Grading Tallies; Son Sues Mom; $10,000 Jackie Photo

    PSA says it graded and shipped over eight million cards in 2021. While some have been submitted since the company…
    January 21, 2022

    Giannis Suing Leaf Over “Greek Freak” Trademark

    Attorneys for Giannis Antetokounmpo have filed a lawsuit against Leaf Trading Cards over the use of the NBA superstar’s “Greek…
    January 21, 2022

    Massive, Original, Pristine 1927 Babe Ruth Movie Banner Uncovered

    “Grampa Eddie” knew it was special. After all, it wasn’t every day that a movie came out that starred Babe…
    January 20, 2022

    Massive, Original, Pristine 1927 Babe Ruth Movie Banner Uncovered

    “Grampa Eddie” knew it was special. After all, it wasn’t every day that a movie came out that starred Babe…
    January 20, 2022

    Shoeless Joe Jackson Rookie Card Continues Its Meteoric Rise In Value

    While the names of Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb dominate the pre-war baseball card landscape, that pair of all-time greats…
    January 19, 2022

    1980-81 Topps Basketball: Taming a Perforated Monster

    Basketball card collecting has many iconic rookie cards for collectors to chase. From George Mikan to Bill Russell. Lew Alcindor…

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      June 10, 2021

      Notes: More KY Shop Burglaries; Topps Earnings; Northeast Show on the Move

      The wave of burglaries at card shops in SEC country continues. Sometime early Wednesday morning, someone climbed into Louisville Sports…
      June 30, 2021

      1948 Bowman Pack Among Mountain of Unopened in Upcoming Auction

      Some of it came off the assembly line just a year or two ago.   One pack has remained sealed for…
      April 17, 2021

      Finding Underrated Basketball Cards of the Junk Wax Era

      We’ve written, at some length, about the formative and transformative periods in the history of basketball cards. We all know…
      January 8, 2021

      Tom Brady ready to defy time once more as unprecedented NFL play-offs begin

      The 43-year-old goes into the wildcard weekend break for the very first time in his job and also deals with…
      April 27, 2021

      Ice Bowl Archaeology: Old Book Surrenders NFL History x 2

      December 31, 1967 was not a warm day in Green Bay, even by Green Bay’s winter standards. The day before…
      January 20, 2021

      Week 7: Georgia-Alabama in spotlight; virus impacts 5 games

      The COVID-19 pandemic is packing a punch in college football this week Alabama Mississippi Football (Copyright 2020. The Associated Press.…
      August 6, 2021

      The Wayback Collector: Ten Observations from a ‘National’ Rookie

      Last week, I mentioned that I would be attending my first ever National Sports Collectors Convention show. It’d been a…
      July 7, 2021

      CSG Parent Company Acquired by Investment Firm Blackstone

      The ongoing push into collectibles from investment companies continued in earnest on Thursday. Not long after Goldin Auctions was acquired…
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