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🏀 Basketball
NBA stars Anthony Edwards, Cooper Flagg and the New York Yankees help collectors celebrate Topps Rip Night (Sports Collectors Digest)
At the fifth annual Topps Rip Night, NBA stars like Anthony Edwards and Cooper Flagg joined collectors nationwide for pack breaks and box opening events, underscoring the hobby’s growing mainstream appeal.
🧢 Sports Cards
⚾ Baseball
Iconic T206 Honus Wagner card traced to original cigarette pack sells for $5.1M at Goldin (Sports Collectors Digest)
A T206 Honus Wagner card that had been in one family for 116 years sold for $5.124 million at Goldin’s 2026 Winter Vintage Elite Auction, marking one of the hobby’s most storied grail cards moving privately.
1984 Donruss Baseball complete set tops REA auction (Sports Collectors Digest)
A high-grade 1984 Donruss complete baseball card set featuring stars like Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. led REA’s February auction with strong results, reflecting robust interest in vintage packs.
🏈 🏀 ⚾ General Sports Cards
Sports Stars Come Out for Topps’ Hobby Rip Night (Sports Collectors Daily)
Collectors gathered at shops for 2026 Topps Series 1 box breaks, prizes, and community festivities as part of Rip Night celebrations across the hobby.
Michael Rubin Proclaims Collectors Are “The Best Sports Fans” at Topps Rip Night (SI Collectibles)
Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin praised card collectors as “the best sports fans” during Rip Night in NYC, where giveaways and athlete appearances energized crowds at Dave & Adam’s.
🚨 Crime
Security video captures moment brazen thieves tunnel through California store’s wall and steal $180K worth of Pokémon cards (The Independent)
Security footage shows suspects smashing through a neighboring business wall into DOWE Collectibles in Anaheim and stealing roughly $180,000 in Pokémon cards, highlighting a worrying trend in collectibles crime.
Thieves carve hole through drywall to steal high-value Pokémon cards from Anaheim shop (KABC/ABC 7)
Three suspects created a hole through a neighboring building wall to reach Do-We Collectibles, grabbing hundreds of high-value trading cards in minutes according to police, emblematic of rising thefts targeting TCG and card stores.
Robbed at gunpoint: $300K in Pokémon cards stolen from customer outside trading card shop (CBS Austin/NBC affiliate)
In a January robbery, a customer in California was held at gunpoint after leaving a card shop and had roughly $300,000 in Pokémon cards stolen, illustrating personal theft risks in the hobby.
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