I've always wanted a 1977 Star Wars Luke Skywalker #1 signed by Mark Hamill. After refusing to sell his own, @NEOCards_Comics helped find another at the National just to shut me the hell up. I wrote about the chase for my next grail card:

Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary spoke on Thursday about the collectibles industry, including Labubu and the sports card market's recent surge. O'Leary on cards: "I finished the research on the last eight years worth of data. Stunning, stunning. It's not a flash in the pan."

JUST IN: A 2003-04 Exquisite Collection LeBron James Gold RPA /23 PSA 9/Auto 10 sold for $4.25 million in a private sale Thursday. Sold through Secure, a new invitation-only collectibles platform. Sale confirmed to @CardLadder with screenshots of wire transfer and invoice.

Sports card giveaways at baseball games are nothing new. What is new, however, is a team working with @Topps and @PSAcard to create an exclusive drop. Here's a look at how the @Mets worked with PSA and Topps on a 15,000-card Topps NOW giveaway.

All 12,122 packs of 2024-25 Panini NFT Best of the NBA sold out within 2 minutes on Friday. Packs retailed for $75 each and contained just two NFTs, numbered to 25 or less. Drop is built around popular SSPs, including Kaboom, Color Blast and Downtown.

I get the spirit of this, but I don't think a good path for realignment includes 14 teams switching leagues.

2025 Topps Chrome Star Wars. Box Break: 1 "hit" included in every hobby box.Configuration: 10 cards per pack, 10 packs per box.Price: $159.99

Two notable trading card releases for Aug. 20 with one each from Panini America and Topps. 2024-25 Panini Donruss Optic Basketball . Box Break: 1 auto, 11 parallels, 9 inserts on average.Configuration: 4 cards per pack, 20 packs per box.Price: $424.95

Fascinating experiment to see how important cards resonate with different people. Here's my list and some high-level reasoning:. • Valued cards impacting how/why we collect.• Avoided repeating players too often.• Considered accessibility to average collectors

It looks like the New York Mets purchased at least 15,000 Topps NOW cards celebrating Pete Alonso becoming the franchise's home run king. Total print run for the card: 20,994.

Anthony Richardson has 27 public sales of $10,000 or more, according to @CardLadder's database. Highest public sale to date is the $36,600 paid for this Green Kaboom 1/1 in Sept. 2024. He's now the backup quarterback to Daniel Jones in Indianapolis.

First look at the all-new 2025 Topps Triumphant Tennis set. Box break: 5 cards, including 2 serial-numbered base parallels and three serial-numbered autographs. All cards limited to 99 or less. Dual/triple autographs fall 1:10 boxes. Available on Aug. 21.

RT @darrenrovell: A Tiger Woods photo was bought in February from a photographer for $75. It closes on @GoldenAgeBid on Sunday. Current….

RT @darrenrovell: A signed Baseball Hall of Fame program sold for a record $315K last night, an all-time record paid for a program. https….

Added to the Braves collection today at a card show here in Atlanta. I call it a success when you can trade one card you don’t want for three cards you do want.

RT @the27guy: Countdown - the #3 most iconic card of the 2000’s is the 2009 Topps Steph Curry. Community had it #1 by a mile while the expe….

RT @darrenrovell: Last night, @GoldenAgeBid launched their latest auction. It included a huge Type 1 of the photo used for Tiger's rookie….

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Multiple sports card shops recently landed on @Inc's list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. @CardVaultTB landed at No. 1,300 overall with a 338% 3-year growth. @giantsportscard landed at 1,889 overall with a 231% 3-year growth. Store was No. 93 in 2024.

I think these are cool as hell but I also assume someone at PSA just threw their laptop into a wall.