![]() ![]() Why so much? Because the payout if you do happen to “pull a banger” (another phrase the cool kids use) could be 100x or more. Or you can spend $34,000 for a box of Eminence Basketball which comes with a whopping 10 cards, all numbered to 10 or less meaning there are only 10 copies (or less) of each card in the box. Packs these days can go for as much as $300 for four cards if you’re chasing a Luka or Mahomes rookie card in Panini Prizm, or even $1,400 for two cards in a box of Panini One&One. But packs of cards in 2021 are not a few quarters or dollars like you may have paid when you were a kid. Panini America, Topps and Upper Deck are the top manufacturers of today’s best cards, and in any given box, or pack, you might just be lucky enough to find a “One of One” Patrick Mahomes rookie card, or a Nebula of Tom Brady like Rob Kardashian did with Bullpen LA, live on Instagram. ![]() Or, you need to “rip wax!” Wax is what the cool kids call sealed boxes of cards, and to rip means to open. You can either go searching through your uncle’s attic to dig up his dusty, old card collection and hope he has a crisp Mickey Mantle stored away with perfect corners, surface, edges and centering (the standards by which the cards receive a grade from BGS, PSA or the other grading agencies). So, how can you get your hands on a card like one of these grails without selling your house or mortgaging your life away? Not a bad return on investment for the buyer of that 2.5 x 3.5-inch piece of cardboard! Jesse Craig, the director of business development at PWCC, the auction house that sold the LeBron card said, “The demand for rare cards, especially basketball right now, is just like the demand for fine art.” To give you an idea of just how much the hobby has grown in the last year, a similar version of the LeBron card that just sold for $5.2 million, sold for $1.85 million just 10 months ago. In just the last five months we’ve seen a Tom Brady rookie card sell for $2.25 million, a record for any football card, a Luka Doncic National Treasures RPA (“rookie patch auto”) sell for $4.6 million, and a 2003 signed Upper Deck Exquisite Collection LeBron James RPA and a 1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle each sell for $5.2 million, the record for any sports card ever. ![]() In case you haven’t been paying attention to the world of sports cards lately, we’ve reached absolute peak hysteria in the history of the hobby. ![]()
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