Innholdsfortegnelse for March 1, 2021 i Sports Collectors Digest

No sooner had we published a Top 10 list of all-time selling sports cards than the list changed…and then changed again…and yet again. The latest addition to this elite list was a Michael Jordan card that became the first MJ card to break the $1 million mark. An autographed 1997 Upper Deck Game Jersey Jordan, graded a PSA NM 7 and Auto 8, sold for $1,440,000 at Heritage Auction’s first sale solely dedicated to modern cards. The Jordan card now rests in sixth place on the Top 10 list of all-time selling sports cards. The previous highest amount paid for an MJ card was $915,000 for a 1997 Metal Universe Precious Metal Games, which was also sold at Heritage. That had been 10th all time, now it’s 11th, leaving only…

2021 UPPER DECK ARTIFACTS GOLF Upper Deck hasn’t done golf cards since 2014, but now it is planning three sets for 2021, including the first: Artifacts Golf. The 50-card base set features golf’s brightest stars and iconic legends. Be on the lookout for the 30-card, serial numbered rookie subset. The Artifacts Rookie Auto Mem insert set features autographs and tour-worn memorabilia from the game’s rising stars, including 2017 PGA Tour Player of the Year Justin Thomas. Search for the rare Gold Parallel and the ultra-rare Black Parallels, along with the equivalent Artifacts Stars Auto Mem insert set and parallels. The Multi-Major Winners Memorabilia set features only players that have won multiple majors during their illustrious careers. The regular set and the premium parallel set feature a mix of player-worn and…

HOLDING ON TO HANK — Hank Aaron’s death on Jan. 22 left the baseball world mourning—a state we’re getting accustomed to, considering the recent losses. In the past year, we said goodbye to such big hitters as Lou Brock, Al Kaline, Joe Morgan, Dick Allen and Bob Watson. We lost a veritable Hall of Fame pitching staff in Whitey Ford, Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson, Phil Niekro and Don Sutton. From the football world, HOFers Don Shula, Paul Hornung, Gale Sayers, Herb Adderley, Willie Wood and Fred Dean were among the legends lost. It seems like forever ago that hoop legend Kobe Bryant died tragically; believe it or not, it was barely more than a year ago, in January 2020. But Henry Louis Aaron—he was extra-special…baseball’s quiet hero, the man who…

MARCH 3: 2021 Donruss Baseball 3: 2020-21 Panini Revolution Basketball 3: 2020 Panini One Football 3: 2020-21 Upper Deck Black Diamond Hockey 10: 2020-21 Panini Absolute Memorabilia Basketball 10: 2020-21 Upper Deck Series 2 Hockey 10: 2021 Upper Deck Artifacts Golf 17: 2021 Topps Opening Day Baseball 17: 2021 Topps Inception Baseball 17: 2021 Topps Heritage Baseball 24: 2020-21 Topps Finest UEFA Champions League Soccer 24: 2021 Topps MLB Sticker Collection Baseball 24: 2021 Topps Sterling Baseball 24: 2020-21 SP Game Used Hockey 31: 2021 Topps Definitive Collection Baseball 31: 2020 Panini Contenders Optic Football 31: 2020-21 Upper Deck NHL Rookie Box Set Hockey TBA: 2021 Leaf Draft Football Blasters TBA: 2021 Leaf Metal Draft Football TBA: 2020-21 Upper Deck Allure Hockey TBA: 2020-21 Upper Deck Trilogy Hockey APRIL 2:…

The 2019 National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago was extra special for Darren Prince, a hobby lifer who has called the collectibles business home in multiple forms since 1984. Prince was at The National with Dennis Rodman and Hulk Hogan, both of whom were swamped by autograph-seekers as both are among the distinguished sports and entertainment names that are represented by Prince Marketing Group, of which Prince, now 50, is the president and CEO. Prince’s National highlight was, in reality, simply the feedback from the hobby about his heralded autobiography, “Aiming High” – the story about Prince who battled addiction while representing some of the biggest names in the world, such as Magic Johnson, Charlie Sheen, Chevy Chase, Carmen Electra and the late Joe Frazier and Evel Knievel. “I was…

Heritage Auctions is launching a Monthly Showcase Sports Auction, a new Internet-only auction. The first auction begins March 4 and goes into extended bidding March 18. These sales, done without printed catalogs, will feature only material already graded and/or authenticated by a leading third-party service when consigned. This will allow Heritage to greatly shrink the window between consignment, auction and payment. “I think that this quicker turnaround model is where auctions were headed,” Chris Ivy, Director of Sports Auctions at Heritage, told SCD. “However, there is no doubt that the current surge in popularity and record prices over the past year expedited the introduction of our Monthly Showcase Auctions.” Suitable material for consignment to the Monthly Showcase Sports Auction will include graded trading cards, autographed material already authenticated by such…

Memory Lane celebrates its 20th Anniversary with a Spring ’21 Auction that will be the largest it has ever produced with more than 1,700 high-end lots. The auction, tentatively scheduled to open by March 6, will close on March 20. Starting it off as Lot 1 is a 1916 M101-4 Sporting News Babe Ruth rookie card with a grade of EX-MT 6 followed by signed 1933 Goudey cards of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, a 1952 Mickey Mantle NM 7, a 1979 O-Pee-Chee Wayne Gretzky MINT 9, a 1976 Topps Walter Payton graded a GEM MT 10, and a 1981 Topps Joe Montana graded a GEM MT 10. There are several unopened packs and boxes, including a 1986 Topps Football Cello Box, a 1980-81 Topps Basketball Wax Box (36 packs),…

Ultra-early NFL footage remains relatively rare. But luckily, on YouTube, one can get a glimpse of the 1935 title game. As even more good fortune would have it, in a set of highlights named “1935 NFL Championship,” at around the 1:50 mark (of footage that runs about 2:15), one can see Clark’s long run to give the Lions all the remaining points needed to cinch the crown. That was the only NFL title game Clark ever won and he played all of his NFL career with either Detroit or the team that the Lions franchise stemmed from: the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans.…

2/05/21 1. $555,988 on 100 bids: 2000 Playoff Contenders Tom Brady Rookie Ticket, auto (PSA 10) 2. $215,000 on 1 bid: 2009 Bowman Chrome Mike Trout Gold Refractor, #18/50, auto (PSA 10) 3. $200,100 on 72 bids: 1986-87 Fleer Sticker Michael Jordan (PSA 10) 4. $188,988 on 103 bids: 2017 Panini National Treasures Green Patrick Mahomes II, #7/15, auto (PSA 9) 5. $167,177 on 118 bids: 2009-10 Topps Chrome Stephen Curry Gold Refractor, #4/50 (BGS 9.5) 6. $140,100 on 45 bids: 2017 Panini National Treasures Patrick Mahomes II Holo Gold, #2/10, auto patch (PSA 10) 7. $128,323 on 85 bids: 2003-04 Topps Chrome LeBron James Xfractor, #53/220 (PSA 9) 8. $125,655 on 120 bids: 1986 Topps Jerry Rice (PSA 10) 9. $125,100 on 100 bids: 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan (SGC…

Kelvin Torve arrived at the airport in Japan after the long flight from the States and was met with flowers and reporters. He was the new first baseman for the Orix BlueWave. This was when Japanese players were not going to America, so little did Torve know that he would be teaming with three future Major League Baseball players, including a sure Hall of Famer. “I thought he could play,” Torve said of one of those teammates, Ichiro Suzuki. “I was thrilled to see him get an opportunity.” Torve spoke with me recently about playing professional baseball with the BlueWave in Japan. He now coaches American Legion Baseball where he grew up in Rapid City, S.D. Selected by the San Francisco Giants in the second round of the 1981 draft,…

The New York Knicks tried just about everything to prevent Wilt Chamberlain from scoring and scoring and scoring some more that raw, rainy, Friday night in Hershey, Pa., nearly six decades ago. They surrounded the sinewy, 7-foot-1, 270-pound center with two, three, even four defenders, in hopes of pestering him each time he shot. They attempted to shorten the game by milking as much time as possible off the 24-second shot clock on each of their fourth-quarter possessions. They even started intentionally fouling the notoriously poor-free-throw-shooting Chamberlain and his Philadelphia Warrior teammates. Alas, none of the tactics worked. As the last-place, over-matched Knicks discovered during that March 2, 1962 regular-season NBA game, where there’s a Wilt, there’s a way. Mixing fadeaway jumpers, dunks and finger rolls, Chamberlain willed his way…

NOTE: If you have a show listing, follow the style below and send to dstrege@aimmedia.com. ARKANSAS Feb 26-27 AR, Bentonville. 2021 Winter Bentonville Sports Card Show, Four Points Hotel, 211 SE Walton Blvd., Bentonville, AR. SH: Fri: 11am-7pm, Sat: 9am-5pm. T: 100+, A: Free. Contact: Matt Canaday 479-586-4494, griffeyguy@yahoo.com CONNECTICUT Feb 27 CT, Trumbull. Trumbull Cards Show, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1734 Huntington Turnpike, Trumbull, CT 06611. SH: 9am-2pm, T: 20+, A: $1. Contact: Karen or Fred Riso 203-265-1813, kmrfdr@gmail.com Feb 28 CT, Milford. Milford Elks Lodge, 124 New Haven Ave., Milford, CT 06460. SH: 9am-2pm, T: 30, A: $1. Contact: Ned Skinnon 860-919-0879 nskinnon@cox.net March 6 CT, Enfield. Sportscard Show, American Legion Hall, 566 Enfield St, Enfield, CT 06082. SH: 9am-2pm, T: 48, A: $1. Contact Cliff Gorneault 860-302-0493, clfgorneault@yahoo.com…

If nothing else, Earl “Dutch” Clark got the last laugh. Clark starts off the highly popular 1935 National Chicle football set, the first nationally distributed issue featuring NFL players, but the card maker fumbled the initial snap. Clark’s card back lists him with the Philadelphia Eagles, one of nine NFL teams from 1935. The future College and Pro Football Hall of Famer, however, never donned Eagles’ colors, but in the 1935 NFL Championship game Clark scored what turned out to be the game-winning touchdown on a long first-quarter run to lead his Detroit Lions team to the league crown over the New York Giants. While the fanfare from the Lions’ '35 season mostly faded many decades ago, the National Chicle football issue gained almost immortal status for many football card…

Here are some recent auction prices realized of some 1935 National Chicle football cards, rounded to the nearest dollar but excluding sales tax: Raw Knute Rockne (P), $304 Ken Strong (VG-EX), $279 Ben Smith (G-VG), $68 Tom Hupke (VG), $50 Mike Mikulak (G), $42 -- Wrapper redemption Premium (R311- 2) Eddie Casey (EX) $47 Graded Bronko Nagurski (PSA 6), $28,825 Knute Rockne (PSA 3), $607 Bernie Masterson (PSA 4), $427 “Dutch” Clark (PSA 3), $335 “Shipwreck” Kelley (PSA 6), $184 “Bo” Molenda (PSA 4), $99…