SCP Auctions says its upcoming auction will be one of its largest ever, with two separate catalogs now on their way to the printer.  Over 1,000 items, including several collections consigned directly from former athletes, are included between the two with bidding set to open April 10 and close over two days—April 26 and 27.  Read More

Sports Collectors Daily is adding another feature to its website that enables readers to see what sports cards and memorabilia are grabbing the most attention on eBay. Read More

Mile High Auction Company will sell what’s believed to be the only known baseball signed by Babe Ruth and Al Capone  in its first auction of 2013.  Sourced through the combined families of two Baseball Hall of Famers, the ball autographed by two of the most iconic men from the roaring 1920′s through the 1930′s depression era of America, could sell for well into six figures according to the Denver-based auction house. Read More

A bat believed to be ordered by Babe Ruth in July of 1920 and used in the early stages of his New York Yankees career has sold for $415,000.  MEARS Online Auctions announced the sale of the bat this week after offering it online.  Read full story at Sports Collectors Daily here.

A 1916 Sporting News Babe Ruth card from a newly graded complete set topped Memory Lane’s “The Find” Auction early Sunday morning.  The card, part of a complete set consigned by a Midwestern family that had passed it through generations, sold for $89,250 including the buyer’s premium.  Graded PSA 5, the card features Ruth as a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox.  This variation was blank-backed. Read More

Mike Eruzione says he’s not in need of money.  Even though he didn’t really cash in immediately after his goal beat the Soviet Union in the 1980 Olympics, he’s done well in the nearly 33 years that have passed.  He still gets paid to speak about what that team accomplished in Lake Placid.  Still, the prospect of adding a couple million dollars or more to the family assets by just cleaning out the attic was hard to pass up.  Read full story at Sports Collectors Daily here.

The uniform Don Larsen was wearing when he pitched baseball’s only World Series perfect game sold at auction Wednesday night for $756,000. The jersey and pants drew 22 bids in a sale conducted by Steiner Sports.  Bidding began on the October 8 anniversary of the day Larsen shut down the Brooklyn Dodgers. The final bid was $630,000 and Steiner tacked on a 20% buyer’s premium.  The winner’s name isn’t yet known. Read More

A new find always gets a vintage card collector’s attention and when it’s a never before seen T206 variation, the talk goes off the charts.  Huggins and Scott’s latest auction catalog (Starts December 3, 2012)  and final Masterpiece Auction of 2012 begins on Monday December 3rd, 2012 at Noon eastern time. Bidding will be available until Thursday night December 13th with the 30-minute rule beginning at 11:00pm eastern time. Read More

More cards from last summer’s well-documented Black Swamp find of 1910 E-98 cards, a helmet from one of the most famous plays in Super Bowl history and a 1916 Babe Ruth card were sold in Heritage Auctions’ Signature event in Dallas last week, but the highest priced item was one of the hobby’s old standbys.  One of the best known examples of the T206 Eddie Plank rarity sold for $110,538 including the buyer’s premium.  Graded SGC 60 (EX), the card is one of only a few dozen ever graded.  Read full story on Sports Collectors Daily.

(Written by Sports Collectors Daily) – He couldn’t resist a little swipe at sports memorabilia collectors but Bob Knight is going to take advantage of their appetite for goods.  Knight is consigning dozens of items from his Hall of Fame coaching career to Steiner Sports to pay for the education of his grandchildren. Read More

SCP Auctions announced Tuesday that Ozzie Smith’s 13 Gold Glove Awards and dozens of other pieces from the Hall of Famer’s baseball career will be part of its upcoming November catalog auction.  Smith, 57, is selling “as part of his estate and family planning” according to the auction house.  The auction begins November 14 and closes December 1. Read More

They don’t come up for auction as a 407-card whole very often.  Singles, yes.  Lots, too.  Even commons bring solid money. 1952 Topps sets don’t grow on trees but one of the best known examples is now on the block. Read More

One of sports collecting’s rarest cards is also among its hottest.  A 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth, picturing the Bambino in the earliest days of his professional baseball career was sold last week by Memory Lane Inc., for a record price of $350,000.

A private collector on the east coast purchased the card, which has been graded PSA 1 (Poor).  The price is a record for a low grade Ruth rookie card.  It’s the second known private sale of a Ruth “pre-rookie” card in the last 30 days. Read More

Each year, basketball’s finest gather in Springfield, Mass., to honor the hardcourt superstars chosen for Hall of Fame induction. Together with the enshrinement and reunion dinner, there’s another big event that has become a tradition during the weekend: Grey Flannel’s Annual Basketball Hall of Fame Auction. Read More

One of perhaps fewer than 15-20 of the hobby’s scarcest football cards is on the auction block. The N302 1894 Mayo’s Cut Plug “Anonymous” John Dunlop was issued long before the pro game launched. The rarest subject in a relatively obscure 35-card set, the card has a starting bid of $14,999 but you can buy it outright for a little more. The card has been consigned to New Jersey-based Just Collect, which is offering it among its weekly eBay listings. Read full story at Sports Collectors Daily here.

If you’ve ever wondered anything printed a century ago once looked as snow white as things do today, wonder no more. Heritage Auctions will offer a group of virtually untouched cards from the E98 baseball card set issued in 1910 during its auction that begins later this month. The auction house is calling it “The Black Swamp” find after the area in northwest Ohio where the cards were found, sitting underneath an old dollhouse. Read full story at Sports Collectors Daily.

Sports Collectors Daily has announced the launch of a new e-book that will help you remember why you collect baseball cards… or what your collection is missing.

The Ultimate Collector’s Guide to 1970 Baseball Cards includes an incredible accumulation of information on the cards, the sets, the packs, the boxes, the sidebar sets, the test issues, the Canadian-based OPC set and more. Read More

Well-monitized collectors sent prices for some post-War vintage baseball cards out of the ballpark early Saturday morning as hundreds of graded rookie cards from the collection of former major league player Dmitri Young were sold at SCP Auctions for $2.4 Million. Spanning several decades, the PSA Gem Mint 10 collection included several cards that were the lone examples at the grade level including a 1955 Topps Roberto Clemente that sold for $432,690 and a 1954 Topps Hank Aaron that brought $357,594. Read full story on Sports Collectors Daily here.

Before he became “Mr. October” with the Yankees in the ‘70s—and even before he was the kingpin of the Oakland A’s dynasty, Reggie Jackson was a Kansas City A’s prospect. He wore #9 in Oakland and #44 in New York but a year before his career took off, Jackson wore number 31 with KC. That original jersey is now up for bid at Grey Flannel Auctions.  Read full story on Sports Collectors Daily here.  Read More

When Yankees pitcher David Wells put on a decades-old Babe Ruth cap in June of 1997, then trotted out to the mound to start the game, it was a little piece of the Babe was back in action. It was a plucky move by the often irreverent Wells, a guy who does indeed relish the game’s storied past. He wound up getting fined by manager Joe Torre, who made him take it off. Now, 15 years later, Wells has decided to put the cap and a number of other items he owns, up for auction. He’s consigned them to SCP Auctions, which is offering them in the catalog sale they will open today. Read full story on Sports Collectors Daily.