
Hello hobbyists! Here are today’s links:
Featured Article of the Day
Slimmed Down but Not Out: Panini Will Produce Basketball Cards This Season (Sports Collectors Daily) — Sports Collectors Daily reports Panini will still issue NBA basketball cards this season, with a scaled-back footprint amid the shifting license landscape.
🏈 Sports Cards
⚾ Baseball Cards
Babe Ruth rookie, high-end basketball cards headline Goldin Winter 100 Auction (Sports Collectors Digest) — Goldin’s curated Winter 100 sale is led by a high-grade 1916 Babe Ruth rookie, with other marquee vintage and modern lots helping define the auction’s top-end.
Fernando Mendoza, Kirk Gibson, Livvy Dunne signings highlight strong year for Leaf Trading Cards (Sports Collectors Digest) — Leaf recaps a strong 2025 fueled by buzzy signings and autograph-card demand, spotlighting recent deals and standout secondary-market activity.
🏀 Basketball Cards
1984 Star Michael Jordan card sets record in $7M auction at Memory Lane (Sports Collectors Digest) — A BGS 9 example of Jordan’s 1984 Star #101 hit a new record price, headlining a Memory Lane sale stacked with vintage and blue-chip basketball.
🏈 Football Cards
Patriots' 10 Best Quarterbacks and Their Rookie Cards (Sports Collectors Daily) — A franchise-focused rookie-card rundown tying New England’s best QBs to the key cardboard collectors chase for each era.
🏅 Miscellaneous / Other Sports Cards
Topps Premier League Chrome is Back and Better Than Ever (Sports Illustrated Collectibles) — SI previews the return of Premier League Chrome under Topps’ league license, highlighting design elements, insert concepts, and autograph appeal ahead of release.
🧢 General Sports Cards
NBA One-Team Wonders: Rookie Cards from the Players Who Never Left (Sports Collectors Daily) — A themed list of “lifers” and the rookie cards that define their collecting markets.
Sports card market boom since 2020 reshaped Arizona shops and collectors (Cronkite News / AZPBS) — A reported look at how the post-2020 boom changed the hobby on the ground (shops, breaks, flipping culture), with attention to platforms like Whatnot and the broader shift toward “what’s it worth?” collecting.
🚨 Crime
‘Crushed’ Peterborough shop owner accuses police of not taking £100k Pokémon cards theft seriously (ITV News) — A UK shop owner says a break-in netted up to £100,000 in Pokémon cards and other collectibles and criticizes the police response time and seriousness given to trading-card theft.
Community rallies around victim of Lehi hobby store theft (American Fork Citizen) — A local report on an incident that escalated from alleged shop theft into a violent aggravated robbery, including community fundraising support for the injured victim.
🎬 Non-Sports Cards
WWE Topps NOW Recaps the 2026 Royal Rumble: Riyadh (Topps Ripped) — A Royal Rumble recap framed around WWE Topps NOW coverage, calling out notable moments and the related card drops tied to the event.
🛒 Pre-Sales
Topps Premier League Chrome is Back and Better Than Ever (Sports Illustrated Collectibles) — Preview coverage ahead of release, with checklist/insert/autograph notes and product framing for collectors.
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