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Sports Cards Nonsense

Inside a $500,000 Sports Card Collection

Sports Cards Nonsense

Sports Cards Nonsense

Hobbies, Leisure

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Jesse are back as Mike shares the story of the biggest and most valuable sports card collection he's ever seen in person. The collection includes six-figure Shohei Ohtani cards, 1/1 autos, high-end Mike Trout, Bobby Witt Jr., Ken Griffey Jr., Albert Pujols and more, along with what Mike actually bought and how a deal like that comes together.From there, they get into the reality of moving big cards through eBay Live, why some cards make more sense for consignment, and what stood out after handling that much high-end inventory at once.Later in the episode, they react to the ongoing Topps website issues and ask a question a lot of collectors are asking right now: if regular buyers still cannot get product at launch, what does that mean for the long-term health of the hobby? And does Topps have any reason to change a system that keeps frustrating collectors?They also talk Fanatics Fest and the new Game Plan crossover bringing business and celebrity names into the space, then close with a fun mailbag covering modern parallels, favorite card colors and refractors, and whether 1990s inserts still have room to grow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

From a breaker angle, thank God that website sucks. Like, if that website had been successful the last couple of years and actually distributing a ton of stuff to a ton of different people, after enough time, it would have been a huge impact on breakers. Uh, welcome back. How are you? Welcome back. In the States again. Did you, does Virginia feel that foreign? Was it a wild time? Oh, that's what I was going to say. I was

0:23.6

North Carolina. I flew into North Carolina, then went to Virginia. So world traveler, some call me.

0:28.1

I would have not said that for that definition. Flew into Raleigh. By the way, the TSA scare,

0:32.1

total bull crap. I showed up at Nashville at 530, 520 to catch my 605.

0:39.1

What are you doing over there?

0:40.4

Touching this little wrestler guy.

0:43.4

Is that okay?

0:44.6

He just needed to be stood up.

0:46.9

He was falling down.

0:48.0

Showed up at 520 for my 605 flight.

0:50.4

I walked through in like 11 minutes.

0:52.6

That's not bad.

0:53.7

Not bad at all. Raleigh was extremely empty. And then Richmond coming back was there, like, was there nothing? So the reason you weren't here was because you were going out to look at a collection and then do the thing with D.C. The collection? Yes, I have some pictures. I shared a couple. Yeah, it's the biggest collection. It's the most valuable collection, and some of them the most valuable cards I've ever held in person myself ever. What? Oh, never mind. I'm not allowed to say his name, so apologies. That's correct. You don't ever say his name again or I'll stab you. Yeah, so the collection, so a chunk of it, he was not, he's like, you know what, This is your stuff as PC I'm keeping. Some six figure Otanis, some Jackie Robbins and stuff that's just unbelievable. Wait, six figure Otis, what are we talking? Patch autos, one of ones, stupid nice stuff. Just stuff you, I've never even seen before. There was a Nike swoosh auto that I think is probably 200,000, 250,000. What? That's insane. Let's see. That's like, you gloss over that. Like, that's not a big deal. That's absolutely insane. Yeah, I mean, there's like 101. 101 Tom Brady Auto's a couple for you, too. This was Einstein, a one of one Einstein cut auto. Einstein? 101 Thomas Edison.

2:02.1

John Einstein, though, not Albert. So a little different. Don't get too freaking excited. All he was, he was a pervert. Yeah. He was like a neighborhood crepe. That's all he was. Number one. Number one. You're also a pervert. Number two. One of one Otani, Ichiro, Matsui. one-on-one game use one 101-1-stupid cool, bat knob of Jackie Robinson,

2:20.1

batonov of Willie Mays, Otani's first inscription auto ever.

2:23.9

I'm trying to think, like, were any of those big clout cards, like where you saw it

2:28.3

online at all?

2:30.0

I don't think you've seen it.

2:30.9

I mean, the Otani Nike Swoosh Auto was probably on the sales sheet for Diamond icons. It was like a product chase. Okay. But I don't know if any of these cards is sold publicly. Jackie Robinson caught autos, a bunch of those. Where did he get them then? Like if they're not sold publicly, is he? He might buy some publicly, but a lot of them, I think he's just owned for a while too. So I was not able to make a deal on that kind of stuff, and it was a little bit of a different deal. Because, quite frankly, he just couldn't afford everything anyways. So I took a bunch of stuff. So I showed up there, me and Jeremy, and then like three true 40-something-year-old nerds. We are sitting on the floor. On the floor in his office, Was you crisscross applesauce? I was, I was Indian style. I still go into style. I don't criss cross. I'm not enough to. Not young enough to. What is that called? What's Columbus Day? No, no, it's something else. It's, um, it's, um. Is it national heritage? No, um, American...

3:24.5

Indigenous People Day.

3:25.4

Oh, yeah, indigenous.

3:26.1

Which no one knows what means

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