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The two priciest cards are baseball cards, followed by three basketball cards . The first sports card to sell for one million dollars was a T206 Honus Wagner which went for $1,265,000 at auction in 2000 (equivalent to $2,238,133 in 2023). [ 1] As of May 2020, the industry brings in over one billion dollars annually for manufacturers and retailers.
From 1986-1989, Fleer was the only major card company that produced basketball cards. In 1990 Hoops, SkyBox, Topps and Upper Deck card companies introduced their own basketball cards and sets in two major releases each year per company. Each of these manufacturers, including Fleer, over-produced their basketball card product for half-a-dozen ...
The following is a list of non-sports trading cards collections released among hundreds of card sets. The list includes different types that are or have been available, including animals , comics , television series , motor vehicles and movies , among others:
Topps first sold cards for basketball in 1957, [12] but stopped after one season. The company started producing basketball cards again in 1969 and continued until 1982, but then abandoned the market for another decade, missing out on printing the prized rookie cards of Michael Jordan and other mid- and late-1980s National Basketball Association ...
This is a year-by-year list of Topps All-Star Rookie Teams.Note that players selected for a particular team appear in the following year's set release. So, a player named to the 2023 Topps All-Star Rookie team will have a trophy symbol on his 2024 Topps baseball card.
The 1971 Topps Card set was a set of football cards released in 1971 by Topps. The set contains 263 cards [1] & was the first set of football cards to acknowledge the AFL-NFL merger with the new AFC & NFC conferences. The set is most known for the rookie card of Terry Bradshaw, however there are many other valuable cards such as Joe Greene ...
Honus Wagner. The T206 Honus Wagner baseball card depicts the Pittsburgh Pirates ' Honus Wagner, known as "The Flying Dutchman", a dead-ball era baseball player who is widely considered to be one of the best players of all time. [ 1] The card was designed and issued by the American Tobacco Company (ATC) from 1909 to 1911 as part of its T206 series.
Heritage auctioned a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle baseball card on August 27, 2022, for $12.6 million, setting a new record. It was the first (and is thus far, the only) time a sports collectible item has ever sold at auction for an eight-figure price.