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Ohtani wants his cards back

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Shohei Ohtani asks judge for baseball cards seized from former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara

Mizuhara pleaded guilty in June to bank and tax fraud after stealing millions from Ohtani.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5954145/2024/11/27/shohei-ohtani-ippei-mizuhara-baseball-cards/

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New Balance discusses their deal with Shohei Ohtani

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Inside Shohei Ohtani’s deal with New Balance: The meaning behind the logo and the collection

How did Ohtani and New Balance come together? Through the alignment of understated approaches

Both Ohtani and New Balance prefer a "show, don't tell" approach, which has led to some lingering questions about the deal, his logo and collection, but NB gave us some insight into all of that and more:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5951528/2024/11/27/shohei-ohtani-new-balance-logo-cleats/

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UVA basketball in Batman comics and Babe Ruth rookie cards for a jump rope?

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What’s Babe Ruth’s rookie card? Originally a means to getting a free jump rope

Now highly valuable, Babe Ruth's earliest trading cards originally served other purposes

A couple fun stories from us at The Athletic:

David Betancourt talked to Batman '89 writer Sam Hamm about his love of University of Virginia basketball (cc: @alexisohanian) and how it's seeped into his current comic run:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5908955/2024/11/12/batman-virginia-basketball-comics/

And then Michael Salfino wrote about Babe Ruth's rookie card and how it was originally used to get a free jump rope or "dandy" bat and ball set:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5911783/2024/11/10/babe-ruth-rookie-card-red-sox/

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Bills rookie gets his Panini card wish fulfilled

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The Buffalo Bills’ undrafted hometown hero who asked Panini for a rookie card and got it

An avid collector, Andreesssen dreamed of getting his own rookie card but knew it was far from guaranteed

Our Tim Graham got to show Buffalo Bills rookie Joe Andreessen his first NFL card after he tweeted at Panini to request one. His reaction:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5905615/2024/11/07/buffalo-bills-joe-andreessen-rookie-card-panini/

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Case of 1979 O-Pee-Chee hockey cards going back on auction block

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Wayne Gretzky rookie card case going back to auction after $3 million unpaid tab

After the original auction winner failed to pay, the coveted case of hockey cards is going back on sale.

Remember that case of '79 hockey cards that sold for over $3 million earlier this year only for the buyer to decide he didn't want it? Well it's going back up for sale (and we got more details on what happened with the original buyer).

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5903800/2024/11/06/wayne-gretzky-rookie-cards-auction/

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