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October 13, 2026

1981 Donruss Golf #13 Jack Nicklaus RC: A Rookie Card Issued With Seventeen Majors Already Won, and 177 Gem Mints in 4,917 Graded

Jack Nicklaus's rookie card caught him twenty years into his professional career, with seventeen major championships already won. PSA catalogs 1981 Donruss Golf #13 as "Jack Nicklaus (R) (HOF)." It was issued the year he turned 41. The Player N...

Card of the Day Hall of Fame Rookie Card Golf

CASE #0374 Informational

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October 13, 2026

GameStop's $10,000 Riptonium Power Pack Has the Same Odds Shape as Its $25 Pack, and Its Table Moved After Launch

GameStop's Power Packs account posted on Saturday, Oct. 10: "The biggest Power Pack yet. The new $10,000 Riptonium level features the most legendary chases in Pokémon history. Available now." The post was embedded by Dexerto, which reported the next ...

Hobby Article Pokemon PSA Hobby Trends

CASE #0372 Informational

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October 12, 2026

1970 Topps #123 Pete Maravich RC: Topps Called Him a Forward, and His Card Has More PSA 1s Than PSA 9s

Pete Maravich's rookie card calls him a forward. He is still the all-time leading scorer in NCAA Division I men's basketball, and PSA has graded 4,397 copies of the card. Only two have come back Gem Mint 10. The card is #123 in the 1970 Topps basket...

Card of the Day Basketball Vintage Hall of Fame Rookie Card

CASE #0371 Informational

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October 12, 2026

CardCollector2 Opened a Case of the First Unlicensed Panini Noir — and Panini's Box Now Holds One More Autograph and Two Fewer Memorabilia Cards

CARDBOARD POLICE CardCollector2 opened a full case of 2025-26 Panini Noir Basketball, the first Noir set made without the NBA's logos. The video is built around a chase card that landed in back-to-back boxes. The box itself is the bigger story: Pan...

Video of the Day Basketball Sealed Product Panini

CASE #0370 Informational

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October 12, 2026

Mike Trout's Gen One Collect Raised $2.66 Million Before Its Debut, Its SEC Filing Shows

Mike Trout introduced his new card company to collectors on Oct. 11, in an exclusive interview with Sports Illustrated. More than five weeks earlier, the company had told the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had already raised $2.66 million...

Hobby Article Baseball Hobby Trends

CASE #0369 Informational

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October 10, 2026

Sports Card Investor's Thumbnail Asks "Not a Monopoly?" — the Fanatics Ruling Behind It Never Reached That Question

CARDBOARD POLICE Sports Card Investor's thumbnail asks "NOT A MONOPOLY?" in yellow capitals next to a judge with a gavel and a Fanatics case file. The ruling behind the video never answered that question, and on its own terms it could not have. Th...

Video of the Day Lawsuits Fanatics Antitrust Panini

CASE #0367 Informational

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October 10, 2026

1958 Topps #47 Roger Maris RC: The Cleveland Rookie Card, 6,566 Graded and Not One PSA 10

Roger Maris's rookie card shows him in a Cleveland Indians uniform he wore for barely a season and a half. PSA has graded 6,566 copies of it, and not one has come back a Gem Mint 10. The card is #47 in the 1958 Topps set, and PSA's own record for it...

Card of the Day Baseball Vintage Rookie Card

CASE #0368 Informational

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October 10, 2026

StockX Live Added Sports Cards on Oct. 8 — and Its Break Rules Ban the Random Team Draw

StockX opened its live-auction platform to basketball, football and baseball cards on Oct. 8, and it arrived with a rulebook for card breaks. Its central rule bans the format the hobby's gambling arguments keep coming back to: the random team draw. ...

Hobby Article Hobby Trends Sealed Product Hobby Health

CASE #0366 Informational

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October 09, 2026

2002 Topps Spider-Man #3: Nine PSA 9s Against Five PSA 8s, and Two Gem Mints on Top

PSA's population report for the 2002 Topps Spider-Man card of Spider-Man himself lists nine Mint 9s, five NM-MT 8s and two Gem Mint 10s — a population with more copies at the nine than at the eight. The card is #3 in Topps' 100-card 2002 Spide...

Card of the Day Topps Non-Sports

CASE #0365 Informational

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October 09, 2026

1981 Topps #194 Art Monk RC: 86 Gem Mints Against 83 Qualified Nines, and a Population That Peaks at the Eight

Art Monk's rookie card carries 4,319 straight-graded copies at PSA, and the population builds at every grade from the third to the eighth — 1,778 copies at the eight — before giving back 626 of them at the nine. The card is #194 in the 1...

Card of the Day Football Hall of Fame Rookie Card

CASE #0364 Informational

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Latest Case Files

1981 Donruss Golf #13 Jack Nicklaus RC: A Rookie Card Issued With Seventeen Majors Already Won, and 177 Gem Mints in 4,917 Graded

GameStop's $10,000 Riptonium Power Pack Has the Same Odds Shape as Its $25 Pack, and Its Table Moved After Launch

1970 Topps #123 Pete Maravich RC: Topps Called Him a Forward, and His Card Has More PSA 1s Than PSA 9s

CardCollector2 Opened a Case of the First Unlicensed Panini Noir — and Panini's Box Now Holds One More Autograph and Two Fewer Memorabilia Cards

Mike Trout's Gen One Collect Raised $2.66 Million Before Its Debut, Its SEC Filing Shows

Sports Card Investor's Thumbnail Asks "Not a Monopoly?" — the Fanatics Ruling Behind It Never Reached That Question

1958 Topps #47 Roger Maris RC: The Cleveland Rookie Card, 6,566 Graded and Not One PSA 10

StockX Live Added Sports Cards on Oct. 8 — and Its Break Rules Ban the Random Team Draw

2002 Topps Spider-Man #3: Nine PSA 9s Against Five PSA 8s, and Two Gem Mints on Top

1981 Topps #194 Art Monk RC: 86 Gem Mints Against 83 Qualified Nines, and a Population That Peaks at the Eight