Baseball — Cardboard Police

October 02, 2026

Flagg $8.04 Million, Crow-Armstrong $1.098 Million: NEO Cards & Comics Asks If It Makes Sense, and Without the Premiums the Gap Is Wider

CARDBOARD POLICE Three days apart, two one-of-one Topps Chrome Update Debut Patch autographs sold at auction: Cooper Flagg's for $8,040,000 and Pete Crow-Armstrong's for $1,098,000. NEO Cards & Comics put them side by side on Oct. 1 and asked th...

Video of the Day Baseball Basketball Topps Chrome Million Dollar Cards

CASE #0354 Informational

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October 01, 2026

1954 Topps #201 Al Kaline RC: Straight From High School to the Tigers, and One PSA 10 in 4,082 Graded

Al Kaline reached the Detroit Tigers at 18, straight out of high school, and never played a day in the minor leagues. His 1954 Topps rookie card has been through PSA's grading room 4,082 times. Exactly one copy came back a Gem Mint 10. The Player T...

Card of the Day Baseball Vintage Hall of Fame Rookie Card

CASE #0352 Informational

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September 23, 2026

1959 Topps #514 Bob Gibson — the Fifth-Most-Graded Card in a 572-Card Set, Behind Only Mantle, Clemente, Aaron and Mays

Bob Gibson's rookie card sits at #514 in the 1959 Topps set, the same season Gibson was still two years from his first All-Star selection and more than a decade from the Cardinals retiring his number. Nobody printing this card in 1959 was betting on ...

Card of the Day Baseball PSA Vintage Hall of Fame Rookie Card

CASE #0337 Misdemeanor

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September 22, 2026

A Channel Spent $2,000 on Slab Packs. The $25 and $1,000 in Its Thumbnail Are Rungs One and Six of an Eight-Tier Ladder

CARDBOARD POLICE Baseball Pack Bros uploaded We Spent $2,000 on Baseball Card Mystery Packs on the evening of September 21. The title states the spend and the category, and that is the whole of what it claims. The thumbnail names the product. It r...

Video of the Day Baseball Market Analysis Hobby Trends

CASE #0333 Informational

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September 17, 2026

The 1951 Photograph Behind the 1952 Topps Mantle Sold for $3 Million — the Card It Produced Still Has Only Three PSA 10s

The picture came first. Everything the hobby has spent seventy-four years grading and reselling is a reproduction of it — and the original has now been given a price of its own. A 1951 photograph of Mickey Mantle, the image Topps used to build his 1...

Hobby Article Baseball PSA Topps Vintage Million Dollar Cards

CASE #0326 Informational

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September 16, 2026

The 1989 Griffey Rookie Is the First Card to Pass 200,000 Graded Copies — and PSA Alone Holds About Two-Thirds of Them

The 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie is the first trading card ever to pass 200,000 graded copies. Collector Nation reported the milestone on September 16, and framed it the way the number deserves: no card in any sport, and nothing in the Pok&...

Hobby Article Baseball PSA Grading Junk Wax

CASE #0323 Informational

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September 13, 2026

Grip n Rip Filed Its Allen & Ginter Pre-Order Guide Two Days Before the Window Opened — Video of the Day

CARDBOARD POLICE Allen & Ginter went up for pre-order on Tuesday, September 8 at noon Eastern. Grip n Rip Sports Cards had filed its guidance on the product two days earlier. The video above, WATCH BEFORE YOU PREORDER 2026 TOPPS ALLEN & GIN...

Video of the Day Baseball Topps Hobby Trends

CASE #0319 Informational

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September 13, 2026

1960 Topps #148 Carl Yastrzemski — One PSA 10 in 11,640, and More Graded Copies Than the Set's Mantle

Eleven thousand, six hundred and forty copies of Carl Yastrzemski's rookie card have come back from PSA with a straight numeric grade. Exactly one of them is a PSA 10. It is the only Gem Mint example in sixty-six years, and PSA uses a photograph of i...

Card of the Day Baseball Vintage Hall of Fame Rookie Card

CASE #0318 Misdemeanor

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September 09, 2026

Western NY Cards Opened a 2026 Bowman Chrome Hobby Box Hours Before Its Street Date — Video of the Day

CARDBOARD POLICE 2026 Bowman Chrome Baseball has a street date of September 9. Western NY Cards had a hobby box open before it arrived. The channel's feed timestamps GOLD AUTO!!🚨NEW RELEASE🚨2026 BOWMAN CHROME HOBBY BOX at 00:05 UTC on September 9 —...

Video of the Day Baseball Topps Prospecting

CASE #0316 Informational

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September 09, 2026

2026 Bowman Chrome Baseball Lands Today — an International 1st Bowman Class, and a Third Box Configuration With Fifteen Exclusive Parallels

2026 Bowman Chrome Baseball reaches shelves today, and the names leading the release are four players who signed as international free agents this year and have never had a Chrome card before. Sports Illustrated put it plainly: Bowman Chrome is the h...

Hobby Article Baseball Topps Prospecting

CASE #0314 Informational

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Flagg $8.04 Million, Crow-Armstrong $1.098 Million: NEO Cards & Comics Asks If It Makes Sense, and Without the Premiums the Gap Is Wider

1954 Topps #201 Al Kaline RC: Straight From High School to the Tigers, and One PSA 10 in 4,082 Graded

1959 Topps #514 Bob Gibson — the Fifth-Most-Graded Card in a 572-Card Set, Behind Only Mantle, Clemente, Aaron and Mays

A Channel Spent $2,000 on Slab Packs. The $25 and $1,000 in Its Thumbnail Are Rungs One and Six of an Eight-Tier Ladder

The 1951 Photograph Behind the 1952 Topps Mantle Sold for $3 Million — the Card It Produced Still Has Only Three PSA 10s

The 1989 Griffey Rookie Is the First Card to Pass 200,000 Graded Copies — and PSA Alone Holds About Two-Thirds of Them

Grip n Rip Filed Its Allen & Ginter Pre-Order Guide Two Days Before the Window Opened — Video of the Day

1960 Topps #148 Carl Yastrzemski — One PSA 10 in 11,640, and More Graded Copies Than the Set's Mantle

Western NY Cards Opened a 2026 Bowman Chrome Hobby Box Hours Before Its Street Date — Video of the Day

2026 Bowman Chrome Baseball Lands Today — an International 1st Bowman Class, and a Third Box Configuration With Fifteen Exclusive Parallels