Sports Collectors Digest

2019…it was a very good year

THE BIG BOYS — “Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast,” as Bob Dylan wrote in “You’re a Big Girl Now.” As if we needed any reminders of how fleeting time can seem, here we are in the year 2020. What happened to the 1990s, and 1980s, and 1970s…?

So with the turn of another calendar year, we take a peek backwards at the biggest-selling items we tracked in online auctions. Our Top 10 list of 2019 is occupied by the big boys of the sports memorabilia—the names you’d expect.

Tom Brady represents the gridiron—three times, or almost one-third of the year’s Top 10. All three Brady entries were 2000 Playoff Contenders Championship Rookie Ticket autographed cards (not to be confused with his

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