With the hobby growing in popularity rapidly in recent years, among some of the newest collectors to join are the same athletes that a common collector chases in product or just personally collect.

January 2026 marks the start of the hobby year with a packed slate of releases across football, baseball, soccer, and golf.

FORT MYERS, FLA. – Justin Topa had pitched in the major leagues for parts of four seasons when a friend messaged him a photo of a baseball card last year. Topa had waited his entire career to see it.

A Munster, Indiana, man is the owner of a rare piece of Chicago Bulls history after he stumbled upon the stashed childhood memento in his childhood bedroom. Forty years later, and in a box underneath ...

He has the 1955 Frank House, the 2009 Dontrelle Willis, the 1975 Dick Sharon and the 1986 Dave Bergman. He has the 1994 Skeeter Barnes, the 2022 Zack Short, the 1962 Ron Nischwitz and the 2016 Jose ...