If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. The 1990s were the visual equivalent of a junk food binge. This was the era of sports fandom that gave rise ...

The 1986 Fleer Basketball set is famous for Michael Jordan’s rookie card, but other names on the checklist have been getting a lot of attention in recent eBay auctions. Manute Bol, Gus Williams, and ...

Rickey was the decade's greatest player, and he also happened to have some of the decade's best looking cardboard. True, the Man of Steal grew up in Oakland and embodied the Town's green and gold, but ...

There’s been a fascination for sports fans with former 7-foot-6 center Manute Bol since the mid-1980s. Still, the sale of his 1987 Fleer card — not even Bol’s rookie card — skyrocketing in price ...

If you buy something from a link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. It had to have been a neighborhood kid who told me about the Bill Ripken card. I should still remember ...

It’s not a bird, and it’s not a plane. But it is the first new Fleer Brilliants set in more than two decades. Just days after the latest Superman reboot soared to a $125 million opening weekend, Upper ...

Michael Jordan’s rookie basketball card is still a hot-ticket item months after “The Last Dance” aired. Jordan’s 1986-87 Fleer rookie card sold for $150,000 at Robert Edwards Auctions early Monday ...

Welcome to The Athletic Collectibles Staff’s Sports Card of the Week! Here we highlight a notable, interesting, or just plain fun sports card. This week, we go back to the early ’90s and a classic ...

An unopened case of 1986-87 Fleer basketball cards that struggled to sell at 10 cents a pack in the ’80s went for nearly $1.8 million in an auction late Thursday night. The price point is a record.

Paying homage to its first-ever baseball card set, Fleer has reprinted all 80 cards from its 1959 Ted Williams set as inserts in its new 2004 America's National Pastime set. With Topps entrenched as ...