Cooper Flagg is on the rise in the collecting world. Photo: Gunnar Word/Getty Images After becoming the first 18-year-old to score 40 or more points in a single NBA game earlier in the week, Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg has had his highest trading card sale to date, nearly doubling his previous record. Flagg’s one-of-one…
What would you collect if you were a world-famous DJ? For Steve Aoki, the answer is: just about everything. The Grammy-nominated DJ tours globally year-round in front of millions of fans. But his Las Vegas home is something he calls “Aoki’s Playhouse.” And it lives up to the name. Open the big cement door, secured…
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 late ‘80s and spotlight one of the most controversial error cards of the junk wax era. The 1989 Fleer Baseball set contains 660 cards and…
Topps has officially released its highly-anticipated 2024 Chrome Update Series, which the company is calling “arguably the biggest baseball set of the last decade.” Given the current hype around the class of players with rookie cards in this set, headlined by Elly De La Cruz and Paul Skenes, and their one-of-a-kind autographed Debut Patch cards…