About a decade ago, somebody put your picture on a piece of cardboard.

At some point, you signed it.

And this week, it was worth almost $4 million.

You have any context?

When you heard that, what goes through your head?

That's pretty incredible.

You know, it's just as a kid, you know, having baseball cards and having, you know,

when you get to the show, you get, or when you get drafted, you get a, you get your own card and, you know, just have

a price tag on that.

Maybe I should have kept that one.

That is MLB megastar Mike Trout, reacting to his rookie card, setting an all-time record for price paid at auction this year?

Despite the pandemic, the trading card market in 2020 has somehow been hotter than ever before.

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managers and meet the people who took it there. I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, December 29th.

This is ESPN Daily.

So Dan, I want you to help explain exactly how wild this year has been for sports cards with an example.

And that example that sticks out to me and shocks me every time I consider it is this record setting Mike Trout card. Can you tell me a little bit about the card itself? So it's a,

it's a 2009 Bowman Chrome Super Fractor. Dan Hey Ducky is a writer and researcher for ESPN and a

card collector himself.

It's got an autograph on it, Mike Trott's autograph on it.

It's graded.

Basically, there are three companies, professional support authenticator, Beckett and SGC.

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