Site Awards |
2022
The Year in Review
Hobby Highlights:
- Fanatics buys Topps
- Serena Williams cards break record for highest-selling women's sports card
- Pele rookie card becomes soccer's first $1 million card, sells for $1.33 million
- Pikachu promo card sells for $900,000, making it the most expensive Pokemon card to date
- Topps and Nippon Professional Baseball organization renew licensing agreement
- Jackie Robinson/Mickey Mantle miscut Topps card sells for $72,500, highest price paid for a miscut card
- Lewis Hamilton card sells for $900,000, new record for F1 collector's item
- First-ever Sports Card and Memorabilia Show held at Fenway Park in Boston
- eBay launches Vault for trading cards
- New record for Michael Jordan rookie card selling for over $1 million
- Panini Flawless Triple Logoman LeBron James card sells for $2.4 million
- Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi dies at age 60
- Topps Truck wrapped in 11,000 baseball cards goes around the country making stops at MLB Stadiums
- 42nd National Sports Collectors Convention held in Atlantic City
- Honus Wagner T-206 sells for record $7.25 million
- eBay acquires trading card marketplace TCGplayer
- 1952 Mickey Mantle card sells for $12.6 million
- Hulk Hogan card sells for more than $50,000, setting new record for a pro wrestling trading card
- USA Baseball and Panini extend exclusive trading card agreement
- Topps makes first Women's Pro Softball League card set
- Justin Herbert joins Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes as 3rd NFL player with $1 million card sold
- Luka Doncic rookie card sells for world record $3.12 Million for a basketball card
- Don West, 90s Shop at Home TV collectibles pitchman, passes away
