A historic collection of baseball memorabilia sold for $9.3 million at an auction hosted by both Christies and Hunt Auctions. Highlight sales included a $1.4m autographed photo of ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson, a $1.0m Babe Ruth game-used bat, a $438k Wagner game model bat, and many others.

Collectable’s Senior Editor, David Seideman, interviews Ron Keurajian, an autograph expert and authenticator, about values on high end baseball autographs, what’s moving the market, common forgeries, and much more.

Endeavor and Collectable are teaming up with eBay to sell sports memorabilia around a series of live events as the media agency dives deeper into the booming collectibles business. The partnership revolves around the Mint Collective, an event from Endeavor’s IMG division and memorabilia investing platform Collectable, that’s scheduled for January in Las Vegas. eBay will list unique inventory for the event and the brand has also signed on as a sponsor.

With preseason NBA in full swing and the season poised to kick off in only a few short weeks, ONE37pm highlights some of games’ bests and their top rookie cards.

Two months after their split off of eBay, PWCC debuted a new monthly auction with items starting as low as $10.

Topps announced a licensing agreement for a trading cards deal with Japan’s top baseball league, the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB).

Sotheby’s has opened advanced bidding on Michael Jordan’s first pair of sneakers worn as a pro, the red and white Nike Air Ships. The sneakers are the earliest regular season pair of Jordans to come to the market and are estimated to fetch $1.0 to $1.5m.

“Hall of Famer Hughie Jennings was one of the greatest and most colorful baseball players of the early 1900s. His trading card may be one of the most rare T206 cards every discovered.”