July 2026 Market Movers: What Changed in Our Sold-Comp Data
We froze our eBay sold-comp medians on June 22 and again on July 31, then compared them card by card and grade by grade. Ripken's 1982 Topps in PSA 8 re-rated hardest, Ichiro's 2001 Topps Traded PSA 9 nearly tripled, and Mookie Betts cooled. Every move below links the actual sold listings behind it.
August 1, 2026
How this report works:SluggerData snapshots the median of each card's rolling 90-day eBay sold listings, per grade, once a month. This report compares the June 22 snapshot to the July 31snapshot. 157 card-and-grade buckets have a median in both months; 35 of them did not move at all. We only rank buckets with at least three sales in both windows (15 qualify), because a "median" of one sale is just that sale. Sample sizes are printed on every row, each featured move lists the individual sold listings behind the new median, and the underlying per-card data was last refreshed between June 30 and July 27, so some receipt dates fall in late June. Full methodology: how we build sold comps.
Every Ranked Mover, June → July
All 15 card-and-grade buckets with at least three sales in both snapshot windows, sorted by percentage move. Medians are of real eBay sold prices; n is the number of sales in that grade's 90-day window.
The Gainers, With Receipts
1982 Topps Cal Ripken Jr. #100, PSA 8: $35 → $260 (+642.9%)
The biggest re-rate in the dataset. In the June window, three PSA 8 sales clustered between $30 and $45. In the July window, three PSA 8 copies sold between $252 and $275, a completely different price level, not one outlier dragging a median:
Worth knowing before you extrapolate: the same window also has a PSA 7 at $30 and an SGC 6 at $24, so the jump is specific to this PSA 8 cluster, and three sales is three sales.
2001 Topps Traded Ichiro Suzuki #T206, PSA 9: $115 → $308 (+167.8%)
The cleanest move in the report. June's three PSA 9 sales sat in a tight $112 to $125 band; July's four sales sit in an equally tight $280 to $326 band. When both windows are tight and the whole band steps up, that is as close to a real repricing as small-sample comp data gets:
| Sold | Grade | Price | Listing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-27 | PSA 9 | $280 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-26 | PSA 9 | $326 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-24 | PSA 9 | $300 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-21 | PSA 9 | $315 | eBay ↗ |
The same window also caught a PSA 10 at $1,700 and a PSA 8 at $125, which keeps the 9-to-10 gap enormous on this card.
1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #53, PSA 1: $7,250 → $12,601 (+73.8%)
The biggest dollar move among the gainers. June's PSA 1 median was $7,250 on three sales between $7,195 and $10,433. July's window has three PSA 1 sales, but note the spread:
| Sold | Grade | Price | Listing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-27 | PSA 1 | $12,601 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-27 | PSA 1 | $5,250 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-25 | PSA 1 | $13,800 | eBay ↗ |
Two sales near $13K and one at $5,250, on the same card in the same grade, days apart. Low-grade pre-war is like that: eye appeal within a PSA 1 varies wildly. The median moved up hard, but the honest read is "a PSA 1 Goudey Ruth is a $5K to $14K card depending on the copy," not "the card is up 74%."
2019 Topps Chrome Juan Soto #S1, PSA 10: $45 → $150 (+233.3%)
Flagging this one with an asterisk on purpose. The median tripled, but the July window's four PSA 10 sales run from $45 all the way to $500, the widest spread of any gainer:
| Sold | Grade | Price | Listing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-29 | PSA 10 | $500 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-26 | PSA 10 | $45 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-26 | PSA 10 | $75 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-19 | PSA 10 | $225 | eBay ↗ |
An 11x range inside one grade usually means the listings are not equivalent: auction versus fixed price, or variations being lumped under one search. Treat the +233% as "this bucket got noisy," not a clean triple. The same caution applies in smaller doses to Julio Rodriguez #659 (+166%, July sales $45 to $140) and Elly De La Cruz #141 (+84%, July sales $35 to $215).
The Decliners
2014 Topps Update Mookie Betts #US301, PSA 10: $110 → $68 (−38.2%)
This is partly a correction of June's own math. June's $110 median came from just three sales whose range ran $100 to $550, a thin, high-skewed sample. July's window has six PSA 10 sales, and five of the six landed between $54 and $100:
| Sold | Grade | Price | Listing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | PSA 10 | $100 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-29 | PSA 10 | $76 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-23 | PSA 10 | $60 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-23 | PSA 10 | $56 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-22 | PSA 10 | $54 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-21 | PSA 10 | $550 | eBay ↗ |
The $550 sale is still in the window: the doubled sample simply stopped it from defining the median. More data, lower number. That is the sold-comp system working as intended.
1990 Leaf Frank Thomas #300, PSA 9: $34 → $24 (−29.4%)
The junk-wax staple softened in PSA 9. Three of July's four sales printed $23 to $24 on the same day, with one at $40:
| Sold | Grade | Price | Listing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | PSA 9 | $40 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-29 | PSA 9 | $24 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-29 | PSA 9 | $23 | eBay ↗ |
| 2026-06-29 | PSA 9 | $24 | eBay ↗ |
Three near-identical prices on one day looks like one seller clearing multiple copies, which is exactly how PSA 9 junk wax gets repriced downward: supply shows up all at once. The grade above told a different story: the window also caught a PSA 10 at $300.
The Anchors: What Didn't Move
Flat months are data too. 35 of the 157 comparable buckets posted identical medians in both snapshots, and among the well-sampled buckets the big-money card barely budged: 2018 Bowman Chrome Shohei Ohtani #1 in PSA 10 went $4,788 → $4,964 (+3.7%) on four sales in each window, with July's three clean sales at $5,100, $5,100 and $4,827 (a fourth printed at $1,580, which the median correctly shrugged off).
2001 Upper Deck Ichiro #271 in PSA 9 was exactly flat at $35 (four sales both months), and 2018 Topps Chrome Update Ronald Acuña Jr. #HMT25 in PSA 10 drifted $45 → $43. Note the contrast with the Ichiro Topps Traded above: the same player, the same month, one card triples while the other does not move a dollar. Player narratives do not reprice every card equally.
What We're Not Reading Into This
The headline index shifted: ignore it
The catalog-wide headline median fell from $1,059 to $625 between snapshots. That is not a crash: the catalog grew from 90 tracked cards (86 priced) to 115 (103 priced) in mid-July, the additions skew cheaper (median $383 vs $700 for carried-over cards), and each card's "headline" grade bucket itself changes as different grades happen to sell. Composition changed, so the index isn't comparable month over month. Only the per-card, per-grade comparisons above are.
Thin buckets are excluded, not hidden
122 of 157 comparable buckets moved, but most sit on one or two sales per window, including eye-catching swings we deliberately left out of the rankings. A one-sale "median" changing is a new data point, not a market move.
Vintage refresh came back empty
A late-July refresh attempted ten additional vintage cards (1949 Bowman Jackie Robinson, 1954 Topps Ted Williams, 1957 Topps Hank Aaron and others) and returned no qualifying graded sales, so they have no July medians and sat out this report rather than getting invented numbers.
These are comps, not appraisals
Every figure is the median of real eBay sold listings in a 90-day window, per grade. It is what copies actually sold for, not what yours will. Read the sold-comps methodology before trading on any of it.
Check the Current Comps Yourself
Every card in this report has a live page with its full 90-day sold-listing history, graded and raw. The next snapshot lands at the end of August.
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