PSA's stolen-card list, Ohtani's $3.24M pants, and the Jackie that's buying a house

Happy Halloween weekend. It falls on a Saturday, Oct. 31, and the next Saturday Halloween is 2037, so this one's a short print.

Still need a costume? Go as a pack (wrap yourself in foil), a slab (two sheets of plastic and some tape), or a repack (your costume from last year).

I put together this PSA 10 Shadowless Charizard costume, gem mint if you don't check the centering.

In this week's Pull Report:

PSA has published the full list of the 6,451 stolen items, with cert numbers and, for numbered cards, serial numbers. Police valued the cards at $963,000 "at the time of the incident," per Santa Ana police. Peak Hobby puts the slabs it could price at $1.02 million raw and up to $11.74 million at top grades; 1,503 more had no comps.

What's known. Police say about two pallets were taken and "a lock on the back of the FedEx truck had been removed." The Athletic reported the driver was away 60 to 90 minutes.

What's not. Who did it. PSA hasn't announced a carrier change; a PSA return shipped USPS Priority Mail surfaced Oct. 24, and one label is not a pattern.

If you were on the truck. PSA has refunded grading fees on every affected order, apart from compensation. On PSA's return label, you get fair market value up to your declared insured value; payments have started. On your own label, PSA works with you directly. Dealer orders go through the dealer. If your card turns up later, you choose the money or the card.

One owner's account. The owner of a PSA 9 Smaug the Magnificent Gleaming Gold, insured up to $50,000, says the first offer was $2,058.99, the amount they paid in grading and insurance. They turned down three offers and say PSA hasn't explained how any were calculated, despite their requests. PSA says it shares its valuations and supporting information with customers.

What to watch for. PSA deactivated every stolen cert. Geoff Wilson of Sports Card Investor posted the 20 1/1s among the stolen cards, including a 2026 Topps Silver Pack Ohtani Superfractor. FBI tips go to its Los Angeles office: 310-477-6565, press 1, ask for the duty agent on the PSA theft.

If you're buying. Check the cert on PSA's site before you pay.

PSA's update has the compensation steps and the full list.

Ohtani, $3.24 million. Fanatics Collect sold a 1/1 Topps Dynasty Black autograph, the only copy of the card. It carries the Logoman patch from the pants Ohtani wore in the game that sent the Dodgers to the 2025 World Series. That night he struck out 10 over six scoreless innings and hit three home runs. Fanatics calls it the third-most expensive Ohtani card ever and the priciest Dodgers card sold at auction. Yes, the pants.

Flagg, $2.16 million. A Cooper Flagg Topps Motif sold for $2,160,000, which Fanatics calls the most expensive Motif ever and the second-highest Flagg sale on record.

Coward, $252,000. Cedric Coward's NBA Debut Patch card went for $252,000, 15.33 times his previous record, by Fanatics' count.

$13 million, back in the box. PrizePicks, the daily fantasy company, paid $13 million for the Flagg, Harper, and Knueppel Debut Patches, Darren Rovell of Cllct reported, via Wilson. Sports Cards Nonsense says the Flagg is going into a PrizePicks repack, a mystery pack built from already-opened cards. Wilson's view: "I would MUCH rather see them go into a high-end collection." Most people pull the hit out of the pack. PrizePicks is trying it in reverse.

Mew, by the pop report. A collector's B/RGB Mew PSA 10 came home, and their daughter declared it "my college fund." They add that PSA has now graded 47 English copies a 10, up from 16 a week earlier. The last sale in their app fell to $12,500 from $14,800. Tuition did not drop 15%.

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No regerts. A collector's first rip card, a 2026 Allen & Ginter numbered 15/199 that you tear apart to get the card hidden inside, got torn. Inside was an Ichiro numbered to 10.

Let the kid pick. A parent who lets their son choose which retail blaster boxes to rip pulled a Fernando Mendoza Topps Heritage auto, numbered 1/1. The kid stays on box duty.

Niners, in cardboard. Two 49ers fans posted autos. One is a Trent Williams numbered 3/5 ("Can I get some love for the Lineman?"). The other is a George Kittle numbered 2/3 its owner calls "THE FIREFRACTOR!!!" A lineman auto getting its own post counts as an upset.

Two shrines. One collector framed 16 Knicks cards, most of them autographed, around a 2025-26 championship print. Another built a lit case for a Blastoise collection headed for every English, Japanese, and Chinese version.

Eight tickets short. A collector owns a ticket from all but eight games of Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,632-game streak, the AP reports. Ripken never missed one; the collection has missed eight.

The case for submitting now. Wilson argues "Now may be the SAFEST time to submit your cards to PSA," comparing it to a bank's security right after a robbery. "Fear is highest after something goes wrong. Risk is the opposite." Your call.

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