Griffey Card Market Report — June 29, 2026

The Toys R Us PSA 10 that dropped to $240 five days ago just sold twice in the same day for over $500. Back-to-back auctions landing at $510 — the June 24 sale was the outlier, not the new floor. And the PSA 9 backed it up: tripled from $60 to $175, which tells you this isn't one fluke sale. The whole 1990 base market moved with it. The Topps #336 PSA 10 is holding above $1,100 with multiple confirmations. The Donruss #365 PSA 10 crossed $200 for the first time — condition sensitive cards are finally getting condition-sensitive prices. Tiffany #336 PSA 9 hit $380 and raw Tiffany copies are clearing $90. If you've been sitting on 1990 base in high grade, the market is catching up to you.

Quietly productive day in 1991. The O-Pee-Chee Premier #56 has always been the harder-to-find Canadian cousin of the Upper Deck base — crisp design, limited distribution. First PSA 10 data landed at $144, which feels right given how rarely gem copies show up. The Score inserts are also finding a floor: All-Star #396 PSA 10 confirmed at $130 after months of back-and-forth. No fireworks today, just a steady market filling in blanks that needed filling.

The Donruss Elite #13 had been priced at $875 raw and $550 PSA 8 — numbers that clearly didn't reflect where the market actually was. Multiple sales today in the $350-$450 range brought both figures back to earth. It's still a significant card, one of only 10,000 printed in an era when numbered cards barely existed, but the old prices were stale. Meanwhile the Studio #232 PSA 10 pushed to $410 with 26 bidders competing — that hourglass portrait design from '92 photographs better than anything else in the year and collectors know it.

Big blank-fill day across 1993 and a few real moves underneath. The SP Platinum Power #PP9 PSA 9 had been sitting at a question mark forever — it's a die-cut holographic insert from a year before die-cuts were common, and the first graded data finally landed at $200. The Finest Base #110 raw pulled back from $90 to $66, a correction that makes more sense given the PSA 9 is $221 — raw copies shouldn't be trading at a 75% discount to the graded version. Black Gold #33 PSA 9 jumped from $35 to $60 on a clean fixed-price sale. Plenty of new data points landed today that didn't exist yesterday — Leaf, Select Stars, Pinnacle inserts all getting their first PSA grades in the data.

The 1995 Flair insert set just got repriced. Hot Numbers PSA 10 hit $1,801 with 44 bids — the first gem mint sale ever recorded on this card. Hot Numbers was already commanding $200 in PSA 9, but $1,801 for a 10 puts it in a different conversation. These Flair die-cuts from '95 are brutally hard to center and gem copies are genuinely rare. The Hot Glove PSA 8 jumped from $42 to $113 at auction, and Outfield Power got its first PSA 10 data at $275. Meanwhile the Bubble Gum raw keeps grinding higher — $50 now with no sign of stopping. That card moves more units than anything else in 1995.

Studio Press Proof Silver #116 wasn't even in this guide 24 hours ago. Then it sold for $2,828 with 16 bids. That's what happens when a low-pop parallel from a forgotten set suddenly gets discovered — a card that doesn't even show up in most price searches just repriced the whole Studio category overnight. Meanwhile the refractor market stayed hot: Finest Refractor #305 PSA 8 pushed through $400 for the first time, and the Wrecking Crew Refractor PSA 8 jumped $87 to $350 — two Topps Chrome refractors from '96 that have been quietly gaining for months. The Metal Universe Platinum Edition raw doubled from $150 to $330, which tells you something about what serious collectors think that card is worth ungraded. Not everything went up — Power Alley PSA 9 dropped hard from $500 to $199, erasing months of gains in one sale. The 1996 market is full of these extremes right now: underappreciated cards exploding, overpriced cards resetting. The Studio Press Proof Silver is exactly why you watch the sold listings every day.

The 1997 market is running on a different engine right now. Flair Showcase Row 0 raw jumped from $355 to $599 — when ungraded copies of a card start approaching $600, the graded population is getting very thin and very competitive. The Metal Universe Magnetic Field had two separate auctions hit $103 raw on the same day, 34 bids combined — the holographic refractor design on this card catches light differently than anything else in the set and collectors are waking up to it. PSA 9 confirmed at $400. The Upper Deck Star Attractions Gold PSA 8 more than doubled from $166 to $350, which is the kind of move that happens when a card has been sitting under the radar for years and one auction triggers the discovery. The Atomic Refractor Preview #BBP2 raw doubled to $300. 1997 is producing more $300-plus raw cards than any other year in the guide right now.

The Leaf Rookies & Stars Longevity /50 PSA 9 sat at null for months because almost nothing trades. Only 50 copies exist. When a PSA 9 finally surfaced at $1,900, the math made immediate sense — PSA 8 was already at $1,009, so the 9 at $1,900 is actually a tight grade premium for a card this scarce. That's how thinly-held cards work: the first sale in months sets the new benchmark. Elsewhere, the Metal Universe Diamond Heroes raw continues grinding — 24 bids at $85 is real demand, not a one-off. Added two new entries today: SPx Finite Radiance /1000 PSA 8 at $80, and Topps Tek Pattern 29 PSA 9 at $132, a card that barely comes up because most collectors don't realize Tek had different patterns that are worth dramatically different amounts.

The Finest Gold Refractor /100 raw just crossed $3,400 — 19 bids and no hesitation. Only 100 were made and each auction moves the price ceiling because there's no supply pressure keeping it down. It's up $600 in a single session. The Metal Universe Diamond Soul PSA 9 filling in at $1,000 is equally notable — a card most collectors couldn't even name that's been hiding in a $4,000+ PSA 10 all along. One PSA 9 sale rewrites the whole story. And the Topps Chrome Lords of Diamond non-refractor raw going from $20 to $103 with 22 bids is the kind of move that makes you question every null in the database. 1999 keeps delivering surprises for collectors who actually look at the sold listings instead of assuming they know what things are worth.