Posts by The Sports Card Dad
2024 Panini Rookie Royalty WNBA Basketball Card Checklist
🗂 2024 Rookie Royalty WNBA — Overview Each box has 2 cards per pack, 1 pack per box Beckett+2Panini America+2 Guaranteed hits: • 1 autograph (on-card) from Caitlin Clark or Angel Reese Beckett+2Panini America+2 • 1 insert card from the Downtown or Kaboom! insert sets (featuring other WNBA talents) Checklist Insider+2Beckett+2 Autographs come from multiple…
Read MoreThe Sports Card Market is WIDENING.
🧩 1. The Hobby Is Expanding Beyond “Sports” 📺 Pop Culture and Non-Sport Crossovers What used to be a “sports-only” niche is now spilling into movies, TV, anime, and gaming. Topps Disney 100, Dune, Star Wars Chrome, and Garbage Pail Kids have proven there’s massive collector overlap. Fanatics’ licensing strategy clearly shows they want collectors,…
Read MoreBIG Changes coming to the Sports Card Hobby
🎲 How Sports Betting and Gambling Are Changing the Sports Card Hobby If you’ve been around the sports card hobby for a while, you’ve probably noticed something strange happening. The lines between collecting, investing, and straight-up gambling have started to blur. Ten years ago, card collecting was mostly about nostalgia — chasing your favorite players,…
Read MoreWhat We Know about 2025 Topps Basketball Cards (Checklist & Pack ODDS)
🏀 2025–26 Topps Basketball: What Collectors Can Expect (From a Veteran Hobbyist’s Viewpoint) Alright, folks — this one’s a big deal. Topps is officially back in basketball, and for those of us who remember ripping Topps Chrome in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, this feels like a full-circle moment. After more than a decade…
Read More2024 Topps Chrome Dune Checklist & Pack ODDS
Key Source & Overview Topps’ official Dune Chrome page offers to Download checklist / Download odds for 2024 Dune Chrome. Topps Checklist Insider has a detailed “2024 Topps Chrome Dune Checklist Guide” with base cards, parallels, autograph lists, etc. Checklist Insider Topps’ Checklists page includes 2024 Topps Dune Chrome among the set checklists. Topps Topps’…
Read MoreWhat We Know About 2025 Topps Diamond Icons Baseball
What We Know About 2025 Topps Diamond Icons Baseball Release / Basic Info Release Date: October 22, 2025 Checklist Insider Every box is designed to include 9 autographs + 1 relic + 1 base card Checklist Insider+2Beckett+2 In past Diamond Icons releases, there was no “base set” per se (most cards were hits). But for…
Read More2025 Topps Finest Baseball Card Checklist + Pack ODDS
Full Base Set Checklist – Cards 1 to 300 Below is a streamlined list of the first 50 cards and the last 50 cards, plus a sampling across the middle tiers to illustrate the full scope. The full roll from 1 to 300 spans Common (1–100), Uncommon (101–200), and Rare…
Read MoreI Finally Got a 1986 Fleer Michael Jordan Card.
The Full Story: 1986 Fleer vs. 1984 Star #101 Michael Jordan Cards Grab your PSA holders and settle in—this is the collector’s deep dive you’ve been waiting for, straight from someone who’s traded stories over card tables, jittered over mistakes, and chased these beauties with caffeine-fueled determination. 1986-87 Fleer #57…
Read MorePSA Expanded OFFERS Changes the Card Buying & Selling Game
How Many Cards Does PSA Grade? Mind-blowing volume alert: Since 1991, PSA has graded over 65 million items—that’s across cards, memorabilia, photos, and more Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA). In 2023, they graded about 13.5 million cards, leading the industry SI. 2024 was even bigger—they nailed 15.34 million cards graded (9.1M sports and 6.23M TCG &…
Read More2025 Topps Shoebox Treasures Baseball Checklist + PACK ODDS
Full Base Checklist – 100 Cards (Card by Card) Here’s your artistic treasure map, numbering each player and the original Topps card inspiration: Stan Musial (1961 Topps #290) Ed Mathews (1962 Topps #30) Phil Niekro (1975 Topps #130) George Bell (1986 Topps #338) Tom Seaver (1976 Topps #600) Robin Yount…
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