As of April 1, 2026, one company controls every newly issued licensed sports trading card in America. Fanatics — through its subsidiary Topps — now holds exclusive, long-term licensing deals with the NFL, NBA, and MLB, plus their respective players’ associations. Six deals. Up to twenty years each. No competing manufacturer. No alternative product. For…
Scammers use real Beckett cert numbers on fake autographs. And even when authenticators examine items in person, they can’t agree — PSA authenticated a Lindbergh autograph, rejected it, then authenticated it again.
Whatnot just got hit with arbitration demands claiming it operates an illegal gambling operation. The platform says it’s nonsense. The hobby says it’s nothing new. But here’s what very few people are talking about: Fanatics Live does the exact same thing. St. Louis attorney Paul Lesko filed 15 arbitration demands against Whatnot on behalf of…
Sports card collectors are hitting a breaking point with grading companies, Fanatics pricing, and breaker practices, according to a YouTube creator whose recent video is resonating across the hobby. Mike, who runs the channel “Baseball Collector,” argues the hobby itself is healthy and growing, but the industry side is pushing collectors toward a revolt. “The…
Brian Gray ran Leaf Trading Cards for 13 years and left in August 2023 citing burnout. The timing told a different story.
The complete deep-dive on the 1989 Fleer Bill Ripken ‘FF’ card — every known variant decoded, current market values, PSA pop data, and the truth behind one of the hobby’s greatest mysteries.
Dappz Sports owes a vendor ,275 from an August 2025 invoice. Six months later, they’re still ghosting—while launching Dappz Kicks. Here’s the timeline of how not to run a business.
On Sunday, Logan Paul sold a Pikachu Illustrator card for $16,492,000. It’s the most expensive trading card ever sold. And the hobby should be furious. Logan Paul wearing the PSA 10 Pikachu Illustrator — the card just sold for $16.49 million. Not because a Pokémon card broke the record. Because of everything that happened before…
One company now controls 80% of card grading — PSA, Beckett, and SGC under one roof — and just raised prices for the second time in six months while a congressman demands FTC action.