Jordan rookie clears $22,250 on 27 bids

A PSA 8.5 copy of the 1986 Fleer #57 was Sunday's top confirmed Michael Jordan sale, but the day's biggest figure was never paid.

A 1986 Fleer #57 Michael Jordan rookie graded PSA 8.5 sold Sunday for $22,250.00 after 27 bids. It was the largest confirmed price among 490 paid sales on a day that logged 580 qualifying single-card Jordan sales.

Why it matters

The #57 is the Jordan rookie, and this copy cleared in an open auction — 27 bids, no accepted offer, no negotiated figure sitting behind it. That is what makes it the most informative print of the day even though it was not the day’s largest number. More sports collectibles coverage.

By the numbers

• $22,250.00 — the top confirmed price among 490 paid sales Sunday.
• $99,999.00 — the day’s largest figure, and nobody paid it: an asking price on one of 90 accepted best offers, where eBay never publishes the settled number.
• $679.97 — the median confirmed price across those 490 sales.

Zoom in

Attention and price came apart. The most contested Jordan card of the day was not the #57: a 1989 Hoops #200 in PSA 10 drew 77 bids and closed at $448.00. The $22,250.00 rookie drew 27. Sunday’s 580 sales split into 386 auctions, 104 buy-it-now listings and 90 accepted best offers.

Reality check

We pulled a comparable-sales baseline for this card and will not quote a multiple from it. The pool returned 103 sales running from $1.49 to $115,000.00 around a $10,200.00 median, with a quartile range of $6,699.95 to $16,752.00 — several different products averaged together, not one card’s market. A quoted ask is not a print either, which is the same reason you read the last trade rather than the offer side of a spread — the equities version of this discipline.

What's next

The honest next step on this card is a cleaner baseline. Until a comparable pool holds one grade of one product, the defensible figure for a PSA 8.5 #57 is the auction result itself: $22,250.00, on 27 bids, in public. Here is how the same method read Saturday’s sales.

How we track this

RazMania monitors completed eBay sales daily, filtering out multi-card lots, reprints and cross-listed items to isolate genuine single-card sales. Prices are final sold prices. A comparable-sales pool for this card was pulled and rejected as contaminated, so no median or multiple is quoted anywhere in this piece. The merchandise filter also removed one genuine autographed card by mistake, so the day’s counts above are a floor rather than an exact census. The wider price sample behind this run spans 22 days, September 13 to October 4, not 90. eBay reports sold date, not sold time.