Sapakoff: Baseball card madness makes Target, Walmart stores stop sales

Employees reporting for the early shift at the Target store in Mount Pleasant expected a typical May 2021 morning. Instead, they found a line – mostly middle-age and young men – extending from the front door almost to a pine belt separating the parking lot from the Isle of Palms Connector. “It was like Black Friday,” a …

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A DOCTOR WHO DIED FROM COVID-19 LEFT HIS FAMILY A SPORTS CARD COLLECTION WORTH $20 MILLION

(Tampa, Florida) May 17, 2021 – The extensive collection of old baseball cards passionately assembled over four decades by Tampa, Florida neurologist Thomas Newman, who died at age 73 this past January from COVID-19 complications, has now been estimated to be worth over $20 million. Some of the one-of-a-kind cards and sports memorabilia date back …

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Wayne Gretzky’s O-Pee-Chee rookie card sells for a record $3.75 million.

A Wayne Gretzky card from his rookie season with the Edmonton Oilers sold for $3.75 million in a private transaction, Heritage Auctions announced Thursday, more than doubling the previous record for a hockey card. The 1979 O-Pee-Chee Gretzky rookie card is one of only two known to be graded as a Gem Mint 10 by …

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