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2 days ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Evan Parker
The NBA Finals start tonight, Collectors. Who you got!? Hopefully not team, “This small market Finals is bad for ratings!”The benefit of an NBA Finals lacking global superstars? A chance for a new one to emerge. And Mantel’s Keegan Wagner (with help from eBay data) thinks that Tyrese Haliburton, recently considered overrated by his peers, is actually underrated when it comes to his collectibility market, making him THE BEST buy in The Hobby right now. AdvertisementAgree? Let us know over on Mantel.
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1 week ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Evan Parker
Collectors! We’re less than a month away from Fanatics Fest and news is starting to trickle out about what collectors can expect. Last week Michael Rubin + team announced , a competition (think pitching accuracy and 'closest to the pin’-type challenges) pitting regular Janes and Joes against celebrities like Tom Brady, Druski, Logan Paul and Kevin Hart, with the winner taking home $1M.
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2 weeks ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Evan Parker
Hey Collectors,The WNBA season is underway and all eyes are on Caitlin Clark- on the court, and at auction. This week SEVEN of her best 1/1s cards are on the block, from her 2024 Panini Prizm Draft Picks Black Autoto her 2024 Panini Prizm WNBA Throwback Signatures White Sparkle. AdvertisementIt’s rare for this many mega-cards of one athlete to land at auction at the same time, says Mantel’s own Mike Metzler.
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3 weeks ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Evan Parker
Happy Thursday, Collectors.
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1 month ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Evan Parker
On Monday night our friends at hosted an event here in LA, and the crew from came packing heat! Among the items they had on display? A signed check from Abe Lincoln, a pair of game-used Reebok Pumps worn by Shaq, a copy of Superman #1 and a . Museum pieces, all of them. I don’t have T206-level money, and security was watching me like a hawk, so I guess I’m going to have to keep ripping packs, hoping to hit something big the old fashioned way.
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1 month ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Evan Parker
Hey Collectors,The sports card industry came together earlier this week in Atlanta for the 2025 Topps Industry Conference, and the team at Topps made a bunch of news, including the announcement that they’ll take over the NBA license starting in October. AdvertisementThe next major event on the sports card calendar? Fanatics Fest, which is returning to NYC June 16th-23rd.
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1 month ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Evan Parker
It’s NFL Draft Day, Collectors, and this year 34 teams are picking stars… that is, of course, if you include Topps and Panini in the mix. The two sports card manufacturers have been hard at work competing to sign the biggest names in the draft, and Mantel broke down which players have been ‘picked’ by each sports card team (including Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter, Cam Skattebo, Jaxson Dart and Emeka Egbuka). AdvertisementWho faired better - Panini or Topps? Let’s debate!Speaking of Topps vs.
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1 month ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Evan Parker
Don’t forget to use a penny sleeve, Collectors. If you listened carefully on Tuesday you could hear a whole community of baseball card collectors let out a simultaneous “argh” when a 1/1 Yoshinobu Yamamoto Superfractor hit eBay with a photo showing the card in a top loader without a penny sleeve, and a good portion of the autograph mistakenly wiped away. The card, likely worth tens of thousands in pristine condition, has 9 bids as of publication, with the top one just north of $1K.
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1 month ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Evan Parker
Hey Collectors,LeBron James has one more checkmark on his side of the NBA 🐐 ledger- first male athlete to get the Ken Doll treatment. Earlier this week Mattel announced that James would become a Kenbassador (their term, not ours), with his signature doll hitting store shelves April 14th for $75. Mattel did LBJ right, putting his doll in a pair of Nike’s, with an AP Royal Oak on his wrist and a pair of Beats headphones in his hands.
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2 months ago | 
ca.sports.yahoo.com | Evan Parker
Well, Collectors, that didn’t take long. After the Yankees clobbered 15 home runs in their opening series, Topps released a NOW card featuring Jazz Chisholm Jr. holding a torpedo bat, the new physicist-designed lumber taking over the MLB debate scene to start 2025 . It certainly , how much would the original torpedo bat, or the one Chisholm is holding on the card, go for if it ever hit the auction block?
