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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
5 Logoman cards set records to lead Fanatics Premier auction
Five of the six Logoman cards to sell in Fanatics Collect's May Premier Auction Thursday night set a record for a player featured, according to public sales data. The top sale from the auction was the $348,000 paid for a 2023 Panini Flawless Triple Logoman 1/1 featuring patches of LeBron James, Victor Wembanyama and Nikola Jokic. The sale is now the most paid for a Jokic card of any kind, topping the previous high of $205,000 paid for a 2015-16 Panini Immaculate Logoman 1/1 in 2024. Advertisement Two Logoman Autograph 1/1s from 2006 Ultimate Collection also set records, with a Tracy McGrady BGS 8.5 selling for $87,000 and a Vince Carter BGS 8 selling for $60,000. According to data tool Card Ladder, the previous record for any McGrady card was $78,000 and the previous high for any Carter card was $24,400. A 2008 Exquisite Collection Dual Logoman Autograph of Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett sold for $84,000, topping the previous record of $31,720 for any Pierce card. The 2021 Immaculate Collection Logoman Autograph 1/1 featuring Cade Cunningham and Evan Mobley fetched $36,000 on 38 bids, easily topping the previous high of $19,200 for any Mobley card. The auction's sixth Logoman, a 2004 SP Manu Ginobili Logoman 1/1, sold for $28,500, but didn't set a record for the former San Antonio Spurs guard. Advertisement Beyond Logoman cards, a 1997 Metal Universe Emmitt Smith Green Precious Metal Gems PSA 8 sold for $66,000 to set a record for any Smith card at public auction. Ben Burrows is a reporter and editor for cllct, the premier company for collectible culture. He was previously the Collectibles Editor at Sports Illustrated. You can follow him on X and Instagram @benmburrows.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Darius Garland rookie Logoman sells for record $44k
Darius Garland's 2019-20 Panini Flawless Rookie Logoman 1/1 sold Thursday night at Goldin Auctions for $43,920, nearly tripling the previous record for any Garland card at public auction. Prior to Thursday, the record for Garland was the $15,000 paid in 2022. The 25-year-old point guard averaged nearly 21 points and 7 assists this season as he helped lead the Cavaliers to the best record in the Eastern Conference. Despite his major role on one of the top teams in the league this season, Garland's card market has largely failed to impress at the high end, with nearly all of his top sales coming in 2023 or earlier. Garland's next highest sale other than the record-breaking Logoman from the past year came in February at $3,840. Will Stern is a reporter and editor for cllct, the premier company for collectible culture.
Yahoo
30-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Shohei Ohtani Logoman 1/1 card sells for record $1.1 million
The Shohei Ohtani Dynasty Black Logoman 1/1 card sold for $1,067,500.00 Sunday morning at Heritage to become the most expensive Ohtani card to sell publicly. Included in the 2024 Topps 50-50: Shohei Ohtani set, which was released in December, the Logoman is from the pants Ohtani was wearing when he hit home run No. 50 from his historic 50-homer, 50-steal season. 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: The 1/1 Shohei Ohtani autograph card with his game-worn 50-50 Logoman has been card was just redeemed and picked up from our Texas office yesterday, and it has been sent to Heritage Auctions where it is expected to go for sale soon. — Topps (@Topps) January 29, 2025 The card is part of the new Dynasty Black subset, which Topps announced in September as a new series of cards that includes game-used memorabilia tied to specific moments. Along with the Logoman 1/1, the Ohtani set includes two other Dynasty Black 1/1s that feature pieces of the batting gloves worn for home run No. 50. One of the cards featuring Ohtani's batting gloves was pulled by a collector in Dallas earlier this month. Heritage previously auctioned the Topps NOW 1/1 card celebrating Ohtani's historic 50-50 season that also includes a '50/50 Club' inscription — that card sold for $225,700 in February. Prior to Sunday, the highest public sale for any Ohtani card was the $533,140 paid for a 2018 Bowman Chrome Rookie Autographs Orange Refractor /25 BGS 10 Black Label at Goldin in November. Ben Burrows is a reporter and editor for cllct.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Mail Day: Way Too Early Trading Card Hobby Predictions for Next Year
I'm on a big predictions kick these days and was thinking to myself, 'what will be hot trends in the trading card hobby this time next year?' And lucky for you, I have the answers. Here are the five I'm expecting to happen within the next year (plus or minus a bunch of extra months just in case): Checklists are going to make a comeback: I picked up the 2003-04 Topps Basketball Chrome checklist the other day because, hey, for $10 you too can own a LeBron James chrome rookie card. And it comes with 400 other players - what a bargain! What I love about checklists is that they have historically, typically, been the first card in you've tossed in the garbage - I've even seen sellers use them as protective cardboard when shipping out cards I've purchased. The complete lack of regard for the checklist I believe is going to make them even rarer and more desirable. The Cooper Flagg 1/1 Logoman card will beat the $528k price for Victor Wembanyama's Logoman: Here, I'll say this with my chest - Victor Wembanyama will be considered one of the all-time greats in the league. He will have a better career than Flagg and it won't necessarily be close. However, I'm taking two things into account: first, I think we've hit a bit of a Wemby-fatigue in the hobby where collectors are just overwhelmed with the amount of Wemby cards on the market; second, I think that this time next year we'll see a nice upswing in the hobby - there's a lot of post-Covid correction, there's the economic factors weighing on people, I just have an optimistic sense that things will be a bit more settled and that the market will be back on the upswing. Someone is going to invent a better way to sell low-value base cards: This just needs to happen - if you can figure out a way for collectors to sell a $5 card and get as close to $5 in actual cash (not in store credit) in return - you will become a trillionaire. Topps is going to penny-sleeve all cards inside packs: Don't we already pay enough for these cards that you can't just put them in penny sleeves? It would be the nicest thing you could do for us; saves us from scuffs and potentially dinged corners. Do it! LEAF is going to sign a newborn baby to an NIL deal: Sounds crazy, right? But go ahead, bet me they won't and check back here in a year. Someone will build a home out of Prizm Monopoly cards: Literally there are more Monopoly cards out there than there are trees, so it kinda just makes sense. I was doing a little spring cleaning in my eBay saved items and found this one: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot French Inventor 2008 S. Tome E Principe Perforated Stamp: Huh, um, what? For those who don't know, Cugnot is credited with inventing the first self-propelled automobile. He also is said to have been in the first car accident ever. I wish I had a good story about why I saved this, but I'm not even a stamp collector. I ended up going down the rabbit hole of 'custom Jesus trading cards' and boy was it a journey. The most popular version of custom Jesus cards seams to be the Downtown variation - which for those who don't know is a highly sought-after SP card released in Donruss and Optic sets. This particular Jesus Downtown card is lauded as being a 'BLACK FINITE 1/1' variation because, sure, why not. The card was listed for only $199.99 and you might think that's absurd for something that you can go to Kinko's and print for less than $5, however when I checked back in before hitting send on this newsletter, I discovered that someone had already bought the card! If you are bummed for missing out on the BLACK FINITE (sorry, I had to do caps) version, you can score a 'graded' JHCC 10 for $25. Not bad for a '1/1' card that's been bought - let me just check my math here - at least 65 times already, which as far as making it a 1/1 card goes that math is not really math-ing. The other popular custom variations are KABOOM! cards - which, again, are SP variations that Panini sells across different football, baseball and basketball sets. Those are a bit trickier mostly because a lot of the 'custom' KABOOM! cards tend to be custom-made cards of current and former players; like, Caitlin Clark, Victor Wembanyama, Shohei Ohtani, etc. While most of these listings have 'Custom' in the title, some don't. That can lead to some trickery if you're not necessarily paying attention. I have absolutely no beef with custom art cards, I think people should buy and collect what makes them happy, only when it feels like people are trying to sneakily sell them - that's when it gets yucky. I mean, I would have gladly 'accidentally' bought this custom Caitlin Clark and Taylor Swift KABOOM! card after a few beers had someone not gotten to it mere minutes before I discovered it. Foiled again. It turns out some jerks didn't end up buying the Paul Skenes Debut Patch 1/1 card, just Dick's. The sporting goods store. Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Who would have thought that the most controversial trading card that Topps would release this year would be the live-action Snow White card they dropped this past week. If you haven't been paying attention - lucky you - but there has been a bunch of controversy surrounding this film. I don't have enough real estate here on this Mail Day to go into all of it, but it will be very, very interesting to see what the print runs end up being on this. I'm curious to see if people hate-bought the card or if they completely avoided it. My thinking is that without the controversies the card would have gotten close to zero on the print run. The bigger more controversial miss here by Topps is that they didn't release 7 Dwarfs cards. I would have one-million percent bought a set of those insane looking cards. I was thumbing through the Mantel app the other day, as I do on a quite regular basis and saw someone post their Guerschon Yabusele cards for their collection and outside of needing to triple-check that I spelled his name correctly I was starting to think it would be fun to start a thread of people's random PCs. So, head over to Mantel and share your most random player that you collect. Would love to know 'why,' too.
Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Topps launches ‘Gold Logoman' cards celebrating MLB's top award winners
Topps is adding to its growing lineup of game-used, ultra high-end chases with a new Gold Logoman card, the company announced Saturday. Similar to the Rookie Debut Patch Autograph, Topps and Fanatics will collaborate with Nike and MLB for the Gold Logoman cards, which will be created from jerseys worn by the top award winners from each league last season. That lineup includes MVPs Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge, Cy Young winners Chris Sale and Tarik Skubal and Rookie of the Year winners Paul Skenes and Luis Gil. The players will wear the jerseys, which feature a special gold logo instead of the traditional club-colored silhouette on the back, for the entire 2025 season. The jerseys will be authenticated throughout the year with 10 from each player used to create the Gold Logoman cards after the season. Topps didn't immediately announce which products the cards will appear in. ????????????????????????????????: MLB, Topps & Fanatics have partnered on a brand-new Gold MLB Logo Patch award winners — Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Paul Skenes, Luis Gil, Tarik Skubal, and Chris Sale — will wear a Gold MLB Logo Patch throughout the 2025 season. These game-worn… — Topps (@Topps) March 15, 2025 Ohtani will wear the first jersey used to create Gold Logoman cards when the Dodgers play an exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants Saturday in the Tokyo Series. Fanatics will also sell retail versions of all six players' authentic home, away, City Connect and alternate jerseys. The Gold Logoman cards are the latest push by Topps and Fanatics to include more game-used memorabilia from specific moments in sports card products. The trend started with the release of the Rookie Debut Patch Autograph in 2023 Topps Chrome Update, which features a one-of-a-kind patch created for and worn only during a player's MLB debut. These cards have quickly become some of the most coveted in the trading card hobby, surpassing the record sales of Superfractor 1/1 parallels in some cases. The Rookie Debut Patch worn by Skenes, which was pulled by an 11-year-old boy on Christmas last year, is currently up for auction at Fanatics Collect. As of Friday, the high bid for the card was $660,000, including buyer's premium. Topps has also made an effort in recent releases to include more Logoman patches in its high-end offerings — a trend that has been most popular during the ultra-modern era for basketball and football cards, which feature NBA Logoman and NFL Shield patches. Among Topps' new Logoman cards is the logo from the pants Ohtani was wearing when he hit the 50th home run of his historic 50-homer, 50-steal season last year. That Ohtani Logoman is part of the new Dynasty Black brand, which was announced in September and will feature memorabilia from specific moments. Currently up for auction at Heritage, the Ohtani Logoman has a high bid of $176,900, including buyer's premium, with nearly two weeks remaining. The use of gold to highlight award winners falls in line with the recent tradition of teams wearing gold-trimmed uniforms to celebrate World Series wins. According to ESPN, the modern tradition of gold-trimmed uniforms started with the 2005 Boston Sox following the team's historic win in 2004. Ben Burrows is a reporter and editor for cllct.
