Here’s what’s going on around the sports card industry — December 2020

We usually bring you a weekly list of five (or so) things that all fit under a thematic umbrella. Five sleeper rookies, five cool-looking cards — you get the idea. We’re breaking free from that for a week. It’s smorgasbord time! There’s some interesting stuff going on around the sports card industry, and some of …

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Sports cards have some of the best dogs

On November 18, 2020, Upper Deck 2020-21 Series 1 hockey cards came out. And, on November 18, 2020, there was a new card that I knew I had to chase for my personal collection. For his second year UD Canvas card, Blackhawks centerman was photographed playing with some dogs on the ice. Canvas is an …

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Keep your eye on these NBA rookies next season

Going into the 2019 NBA season, it wasn’t tough to know whose cards you wanted. Zion Williamson and Ja Morant were the runaway favorites of the rookie class, the guys whose rookie cards were gonna blow everyone else out of the water. That held true all year, but there were some sleepers who were worth …

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What cards made you the collector you are today?

They say poker players only remember the bad beats. They don’t remember when they caught a miraculous card on the river, and they don’t remember when they masterfully bluffed someone into throwing away their hand. The baggage they carry with them are the improbable losses that were nothing short of devastating. I like to think …

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Thinking outside the jersey: Now we’re looking at the coolest NFL relics

Now that this truncated baseball season is over and football is the only one of the four major North American sports that’s still in full swing, we thought it’d be a great time to revisit one of our favorite premises for an article. A few months ago, we wrote about some of the coolest relics …

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Answering your most-asked questions from Loupe’s launch

We can confidently say — with no hyperbole or exaggeration — that we love it here. It has been a long and tough road as we’ve spent most of 2020 putting together this app that we knew could change the card collecting market. It’s so amazing to finally show it to you. The outpouring of …

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