100 Most Expensive Baseball Cards Sold on eBay in 2022

Well, before the year pulled a hammy, that is

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In case you hadn’t noticed, 2022 is pretty much shot.

If you count today, in fact, we have just one solitary week to put a bow on all our 2022 hopes and dreams.

And that means we can get a good look at the top of the top when it comes to the baseball card market, using our favorite numbers toy — eBay sales.

To wit, you’ll find the list of the 100 most expensive baseball card sales on eBay from this last year, as culled from our own 52-week archive, at the bottom of this post. (Note that a lot of those links won’t work now since eBay only exposes three months of history — they’re there for posterity.)

There’s some gaudy stuff down there, starting with the shatter-your-eyeballs Aaron Judge at the top and finishing off with a run of college-tuition also-rans at the bottom.

You can do all sorts of stuff with those numbers, and I invite you to dig in.

For the purposes of today’s newsletter, though, I’m going with a trend that stands out like a saguaro in a snow storm. Here, let’s see if you can spot it: