Welcome to The Athletic Collectibles Staff’s Sports Card of the Week! Here we highlight a notable, interesting, or just plain fun sports card. This week, we go back to the early ’90s and a classic Michael Jordan card. The 1991 Fleer Basketball set contains 400 cards and was released in two parts: Series 1 and an…
Michael Jordan’s rise and domination of the sporting world with the Chicago Bulls happened to coincide with trading card companies pushing their printing presses to unprecedented extremes. As a result, there might be more Jordan cards in existence than of any other athlete. And since this “junk wax era” was also a time when people…
Basketball fans can be like Mike and rent Michael Jordan’s former Illinois mansion on Airbnb. The mansion, which sold in December after being on the market for 12 years, was listed on the vacation rental website this month. NBC News reported that real estate investor John Cooper bought the house for $9.5 million, and Airbnb…
A 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan autographed rookie card sold for $2.5 million on Thursday through Pharrell Williams’ auction house Joopiter. The price tag made it the third most expensive Jordan card sale publicly known and the most expensive Jordan rookie card sale. The minimum bid for the card was set at $2 million and it…
One of the most unique, mysterious, and potentially most valuable Michael Jordan cards in existence will be available in mid-June through an auction house founded by musician Pharrell Williams. A 1986-87 Fleer Jordan autographed rookie card will be auctioned off by Williams’ Joopiter, an online auction house and marketplace selling a sports collectible for the…
The Ferrari Formula One car that Michael Schumacher used to win the 2001 Monaco and Hungarian grands prix — and clinch that year’s world title — has sold for $18.17 million to become the most expensive F1 car driven by the legendary German driver ever sold at auction. The F2001 car was sold by RM…
There are many theories why the value of sports cards exploded during the pandemic but the fact itself is undeniable. The peak prices achieved then are viewed as an outlier, a bubble, something to be ignored when looking at the otherwise linear appreciation of vintage cards. But four years after that market peak of early…
Michael Jordan’s impact on both the NBA and the growth of the basketball card industry has left a lasting influence. The five-time NBA MVP’s trading cards have been graded by PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator), by far the largest grading company, over 1.6 million times, unquestionably the most by any athlete (Ken Griffey Jr. is a…
A Flamin’ Hot Cheeto bearing a resemblance to Michael Jordan’s Jumpman logo is currently up for sale at Goldin Auctions. Earlier this month, the same auction house sold a Flamin’ Hot Cheeto shaped like popular Pokémon character Charizard for $87,840 after it was widely shared on social media last year. The Jumpman Cheeto is three…
NBA debut jerseys for Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant will hit the auction block through Sotheby’s. The two jerseys are being sold individually, but the auction house estimates that the two jerseys could sell for a combined $20 million or more. Jordan’s 1984 preseason debut autographed Chicago Bulls jersey will be available starting on March…