It was a monster week at the top of the sports card market, with six sales clearing the $500,000 mark and a mix of names that spans eras, sports, and hobby legend status.
The week’s biggest headline belonged to a PSA 8 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle, which finished at $1,555,500 on July 10, 2026. Few cards in the hobby carry the same weight as the 1952 Topps Mantle, and this one again proved why it sits in a class of its own.
Last year, the card set the record for the most expensive solo-player sports card ever sold when a PSA 9 brought $12,600,000. Earlier this year, golf great Fred Couples also made news with his PSA 2.5 copy of the card.
Tom Brady landed at No. 2 with his most sought-after card, a PSA 8 with a 10 auto 2000 Playoff Contender Tom Brady Championship Ticket Autograph rookie card #144 (83/100) with an MBA silver sticker. It sold for $1,113,250 on July 10, 2026.
That card has now crossed the $1 million line more than twenty times, though the record still belongs to a BGS 9 with a 10 auto that reached $3,800,000 in February 2022. So far, this is the only Brady card to top seven figures, but the source of the market’s confidence is obvious.
Jim Thorpe checked in at No. 3 with a PSA 9 1933 Sport Kings card that sold for $777,750 on July 10, 2026. Thorpe doesn’t often dominate these weekly leaderboards, which makes this result stand out even more.
It was the highest public sale ever for the football icon, and it blew past the previous mark for any Thorpe card - the same card, which sold for $138,000 in July 2020. Thorpe remains one of the greatest all-around athletes in history and one of football’s earliest stars, a figure who helped shape the sport in its formative years.
Jackie Robinson followed at No. 4 with a PSA 8.5 1952 Topps Jackie Robinson #312 that brought $622,200 on July 10, 2026. That price made it the third-highest sale of any Robinson card and the highest sale ever for that grade. Only two Robinson cards have sold for more, and both were PSA 9s that went for $960,000 in 2021.
Kobe Bryant rounded out the top five with a PSA 7, with a 10 auto, 2003-04 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Limited Logos Autograph game-used patch #LL-KB (/75) that sold for $617,320 on July 11. It’s now the highest-selling card of its kind and the second-highest-selling autographed limited logos card featuring Bryant.
That was the story of the week: Mantle at the top, Brady still powering the high end, and a deep run of hobby royalty filling out the list.
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