The best way to describe the ceiling for Shohei Ohtani’s baseball card market might be as “breakable,” as he’s established new highs time and time again. Gauging when Ohtani’s ceiling will become a more permanent fixture, though, is an ongoing and possibly neverending exercise. Take for example the plight of Randy Boudreaux. The CEO of…
Avid hobbyists Bobby Witt Jr. and Corbin Carroll have watched and bought into enough baseball card box breaks to know how to provide the proper suspense and ensuing hype when pulling a one-of-a-kind autographed rookie card. Playing the roles of box breakers for a day during spring training in March, the Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder slowly…
Heritage’s director of sports auctions Chris Ivy has said the marketplace typically leans to a more conservative estimate for a consigned item. The “conservative” estimate the one-of-a-kind 2007-08 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant dual Logoman (the NBA logo patch from each of their game-worn jerseys) autographed patch card stood at “$6…
A Shohei Ohtani trading card sold for nearly $1.07 million through Heritage Auctions on Saturday night, making it the first Ohtani card to reach the seven-figure milestone. The one-of-a-kind Topps Dynasty Black card was from a set produced last year to commemorate Ohtani’s historic 50/50 season. It was autographed in gold pen by Ohtani and…
The jeans chess player Magnus Carlsen wore when the world No 1 withdrew from a tournament over its dress code have been sold in an eBay auction for $36,100 with proceeds going to charity. Carlsen, and the Coreliani jeans he was wearing, made headlines at the World Rapid and Blitz Championships in 2024 in December…
Jerseys that LeBron and Bronny James wore the night they became the first father and son to play in an NBA game together sold as a pair at auction for $102,000 on Wednesday. In May, Sotheby’s sold a jersey worn by LeBron James in the Los Angeles Lakers’ In-Season Tournament semifinal win over the New…