Sports Collectors Digest

SPORTS COLLECTORS DIGEST covers every aspect of modern sports collecting, including cards, memorabilia, equipment, lithographs, figurines, and autographed material. Online collecting, memorabilia, and auction news are covered each week in specially designed sections that complement columns from some of the most respected experts in the hobby and up-to-date card pricing and checklisting data from expert analysts. Along with display advertisements from all of the major dealers in the country, each weekly issue offers extensive auction advertising and listings, plus a classified section that gives collectors a medium for buying, selling, and trading.

Sports Collectors Digest

Topps Basketball rip yields special rookie cards and one elite big man

Collector’s hobby redemption story worth the wait

RESOLUTION PHOTOMATCHING CREATES EXPERT ADVISORY BOARD FOR MEMORABILIA AUTHENTICATION

DRAKE MAYE CHANNELS TOM BRADY, PATS’ GLORY DAYS • YAMAMOTO CARDS STILL HOT AFTER WORLD SERIES MVP

BABE RUTH CORKED BAT SELLS FOR $365K • SHOHEI OHTANI HOME RUN BALL UP FOR BID

HOOPS GOLD • Join our DRIVE DOWN memory lane as we rank the TOP 10 TOPPS Basketball sets OF ALL TIME

FASTBREAK • COOPER FLAGG, young sharpshooters off to HOT STARTS, headline NBA rookie CARDS TO CHASE in 2025-26

THE OTHER ONES • While TOPPS RULED the 1980s, 1985 O-PEE-CHEE BASEBALL gave Canadian collectors another HOMEGROWN OPTION

JACKIE ROBINSON LEGACY LIVES ON WITH MYSTERY BOXES, SPECIAL CARDS OF FORMER TEAMMATES

STILL BASHING • Slugger JOSE CANSECO still attracting loyal fans at card shows years after DIVORCE FROM MLB

THE ‘GRANDYMAN’ CAN • Former MLB star CURTIS GRANDERSON shares the joys of SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS, COLLECTING CARDS and helping introduce kids to the hobby through his NEW CHARITY

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RUSSIAN ROCKETS • From ALEX MOGILNY to ALEX OVECHKIN, Russian superstars and their ROOKIE CARDS helped define the HOCKEY HOBBY