Gone are the days when kids would affix baseball cards onto bicycle spokes and ride around with a motorcycle-like sound emanating from the wheels. In 2025, kids put their cards into clear resin or ...

Why do people collect sports cards or Pokémon cards? This question opens a deeper look into human behavior: why do people collect anything at all? Sigmund Freud theorized that the urge to collect ...

The vintage sports card hobby has proven to offer safety and steady growth in value over longer time periods. The players are locked in time. “Mickey Mantle isn’t going to have any bad years,” people ...

On New Year’s Day 2025, Topps put a sports card twist on an old holiday by turning Jan. 1 into “1 of 1 Day” — an occasion to celebrate one-of-a-kind cards across the hobby. It immediately took off on ...

Welcome to The Athletic Collectibles Staff’s 2025 Sports Card Power Rankings! Here we spotlight a mix of the most notable, eye-catching and downright fun sports cards released so far in 2025. Our ...

You don't often see a former Spurs player ripping open packs of Major League Baseball cards at a trading cards shop, much less bemoaning how he had to recoup some of his most prized cards of himself ...