Tarik Skubal's Topps Chrome rookie rose after the Dodgers trade
As free agency gears up, his rookie value has come back down to pre-trade levels.
· Baseball
Best cards to invest in
The CardWire desk on the best cards to invest in: where money is moving across sports cards and TCG, which cards it rates, and the sales behind each call.
Mickey's Wayward Sorcerer PSA 10 climbs while most Lorcana Enchanteds fall
A PSA 10 of the 2023 card sold for $2,025 after Hyperia City arrived, while 48 of 53 Enchanteds from this year's earlier sets sell for less than in September.
· Wire · Lorcana
OP-18 boxes are a pass at $300 until the first wave lands
I'd wait for $250 to $275 after the Nov. 20 release. English preorders already ask around $300, the same as an OP-17 box.
· Wire · One Piece
Mega Rayquaza ex is a sell at $330 as Delta Reign opens
All 19 Mega chases from earlier regular sets with enough launch-week sales fell by day 90, 12 of them by at least 40%.
· Wire · Pokémon
2026 NFL rookie card prices: what Mendoza, Tate, Love and seven more sell for
A card-by-card look at the Bowman Chrome, Refractor /499, Topps and Topps Gold rookies of 10 top NFL rookies, led by Fernando Mendoza.
· Football
Luka Dončić's Silver Prizm rookie holds near $1,800 as his hot start continues
His Silver Prizm PSA 10 sells for $1,860, while the base Prizm PSA 10 holds near $200.
· Basketball
Connor McDavid's hot streak leads to a rise in his market
His Young Guns PSA 10 sells around $3,500 after he became the fastest player in NHL history to 30 assists.
· Hockey
Where I'd Buy a Michael Jordan Card at Every Budget Right Now
Black Friday came early for Jordan collectors, with most of his weekly sellers marked down in October from the $25 SP1 to the PSA 8 rookie.
· Basketball
Chet Holmgren's Prizm Silver is cheap enough to buy through his knee injury
His Silver PSA 10 sells for about $155, less than teammate Jalen Williams' at about $220.
· Wire · Basketball
October card sales pass $1 billion on millions of small sales
Pokémon set the pace, but most of the volume came from smaller sales.
· Wire · Market
Stephen Curry's Prestige rookie is a PSA 10 nearly half the time it's graded
A raw 2009 Prestige #207 sells for about $145, against about $825 for one in a PSA 10 holder.
· Wire · Basketball
Stephen Curry's 2009 Topps rookie runs ahead of his Wilkins milestone
His PSA 9 jumped from about $4,400 in July to $6,400 in August, well before Friday's milestone.
· Basketball
Ty Jerome is scoring like a star on a $10 rookie card
He opened with 45 points, then scored 15 and 10 in his last two before sitting out with a sore back.
· Wire · Basketball
Alex Ovechkin's PSA 10 rookie is up 20% since he named his final season
It's still short of the $5,100 his Young Guns reached while he chased Gretzky's goal record.
· Hockey
Brewers Win the World Series While Rookie Cooper Pratt Sets a World Series Rookie Record
Pratt set a World Series rookie record with six straight hits as the Brewers won their first title, and his 2024 Bowman Chrome Refractor /499 auto in PSA 10 went from $246 in the regular season to about $375 after Game 4.
· Baseball
Patrick Stewart Dies at 86: A Look Back at His Cards, From Captain Picard to Professor X
His cards follow his career, from Picard base cards printed while The Next Generation was on the air to an autograph Topps put in packs three weeks before he died.
· Market
Anthony Edwards' Silver Prizm could cool after his knee surgery
ESPN reported he could miss up to two months, hours after that PSA 10 sale.
· Wire · Basketball
A Jordan and Kobe Logoman Still Holds the Record for the Most Expensive Sports Card Ever Sold
Heritage sold the 1/1 for $12,932,000 in August 2025. Here's every sports card sale of $5.2 million or more and why each one went so high.
· Market
How to Tell If the Old Trading Cards in Your Closet Are Worth Anything
A 1st Edition Jungle Snorlax just sold for $180,000. Here's what to pull from an old card box before the holidays and how to find what a card sold for.
· Market
Brewers Fans Are Paying Up for Chourio Before the World Series
Jackson Chourio's first Bowman Chrome autograph Refractor went from $930 to $1,177 in PSA 10 in August to a $1,600 sale four days after Milwaukee swept the Dodgers.
· Baseball
A Mahomes Card Lifts Brendan Darr to Second in the SCN Challenge
Alex Llanso still leads after Week 6, as Brendan Darr climbed from seventh on a Mahomes card I doubted last week.
· Hobby
The SCN Challenge Is Fantasy Football But With Graded Cards
The SCN Challenge is a fantasy football league where 10 hobby creators "draft" graded cards within a $1,000 budget for a $1,500 cash prize.
· Hobby
The Value of Most Patch Cards Is Going To Zero
Cooper Flagg's debut patch sold for more than $8 million in September. A game-used Mike Trout jersey relic sold for $7 on Oct. 1.
· Baseball
Why We Started CardWire
The card market has grown up without the information infrastructure that should have come with it, so we built one.
· Market
Whatnot Is Changing Which Sports Cards Become Valuable
Live commerce is creating a new premium for sports cards.
· Market
10 Raw Cards Under $100 Everyone Should Own
Ten established cards with real history and broad demand. Buying all ten raw costs about $381 at October prices.
· Market
Stop Buying Prospects. Buy Disappointment.
Prospect cards price in the career everyone hopes a young player will have; buyers get the better risk-reward once the first part of that career goes wrong.
· Market
Private Equity Has Entered the Collectible Space
Private capital now owns grading, marketplaces, price data and vaults. Card shops are next.
· Market
1990s Marvel Cards Are Still Mispriced
Prices of the best 1990s Marvel cards climbed all fall while PSA's count of perfect copies barely moved.
· Market
Autographs Are Not What Makes a Card Scarce
Cooper Flagg's signature already sits on rookie autographs in six different Topps products. What collectors pay for is the serial number, the rookie year and whether he signed the card itself.
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What Happens to Card Prices When a Career Ends
Surprise retirements and deaths move a player's card prices, but a Hall of Fame call rarely does. Mike Ditka's PSA 4 rookie went from around $335 the year before his death to $549 on Oct. 18.
· Market
Topps Printed 211,627 LeBrons. Collectors Couldn't Get Enough.
LeBron James plays his first game for the 76ers on Tuesday. I'd skip the $7 base of his first Sixers card and spend on the numbered parallels.
· Basketball
What's More Valuable: Liquidity or Scarcity?
Patrick Mahomes's 2017 Prizm Silver rookie sold 36 times in PSA 10 over the last 90 days. His far scarcer Select Premier Level Silver sold three times.
· Market
Are Modern Sports Cards Just Junk Wax With Serial Numbers?
Prizm Basketball went from one numbered parallel in 2012 to 59 in its last NBA-licensed year. Buyers are paying up for the few parallels collectors know by name.
· Market
Nobody Is Running Out of Charizards
Pokémon is printing more cards than ever and PSA is grading more than ever. Since August, PSA 10s of newer chase cards kept sliding while the 1999 Charizard held its price through a reprint.
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