Caitlin Clark debut tickets come back MINT 9 half the time, which makes $416 the going rate

The grade that dominates is also the grade that sets the price. Of the 51 public sales of this ticket we have compiled from eBay, Goldin and Fanatics Collect between August 2024 and August 2026, 33 were a MINT 9, and their median was $416. The four unsigned GEM MT 10s made between $1,136 and $2,790. The six signed copies, all sold at Goldin, took $26,291, which is half of the $52,185 spent on the ticket in two years. Population counts are from our 8 July 2026 census of the PSA report, re-read live from PSA on 6 October 2026.

Which game is the Caitlin Clark debut ticket?

The official debut is the first regular-season WNBA game: Tuesday 14 May 2024, Indiana Fever at Connecticut Sun, Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville. The Sun won 92-71 in front of a sellout of 8,910, the arena's first sold-out season opener since 2003. Clark scored 20 points on 5-of-15 shooting with 3 assists and 10 turnovers, the most ever by a player in her WNBA debut, two more than the previous mark held by Cynthia Cooper (AP, theScore).

Two earlier games get sold as her debut and neither qualifies. On 3 May 2024 the Fever opened the preseason at the Dallas Wings' College Park Center in Arlington, a 6,251 sellout that the Wings lost 79-76 with Clark scoring 21 (WNDU, CBS News). It was an exhibition. PSA's own label for that ticket reads "Preseason, Caitlin Clark Pro Debut", and our preseason debut ticket report measures what that word costs across five sports. Her college debut, 25 November 2020 against Northern Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, 27 points in a 96-81 win (Hawkeye Sports), was played under COVID protocols with 365 in the building and no general-admission or season tickets on sale (Iowa athletics, season record). It is not a professional game, and PSA has no listing for it.

The debut, 14 May 2024, PSA 10

The preseason game, 3 May 2024, PSA 10

Why are 133 of the 183 copies a 9 or a 10?

Because this is a 2024 full ticket, not a 1950s stub. It was printed on card stock by the Mohegan Sun box office at $20 and $30 face value, and graded within two years of the game. Compare the Mickey Mantle debut ticket, where the surviving copies are torn stubs that top out at mid grades, or the Jackie Robinson debut ticket, where a single example trades per year. Here 72.7% of the population is MINT 9 or better and the GEM MT 10 is not rare at all: 37 exist.

PSA's cert numbers show how the copies arrived. Certs are issued in sequence, so a run of consecutive numbers is one submission. Three runs account for 61 of the 93 debut certs in our scans reference: 92727577 to 92727601, 25 tickets graded 8 and 9 together; 98663113 to 98663141, 29 tickets that came back MINT 9 to the last one; and 99962297 to 99962303, seven more 9s. The steady flow of $350 to $530 MINT 9s on eBay from December 2024 onwards is what those submissions look like being sold down. The population did not move between our census and a live read on 6 October 2026: still 37 at GEM MT 10 with none higher, still 96 at MINT 9.

There is a second format. Tickets bought online came as a print-out with a tear-off stub, and the $10,492 record is one of those prints rather than box-office stock. Beckett has slabbed the stub of one: a BGS MINT 9 that sold at Goldin for $287 on 28 August 2026. It is not PSA, so it sits outside the 183 and outside the 51 sales, and it is the only graded stub of this game we have seen.

What has a MINT 9 cost, quarter by quarter?

Volume peaked in the first quarter of 2025, when eleven MINT 9s sold, and has since fallen to one or two a quarter. The price did not fall with it. Every quarter since the fourth of 2024 has cleared between $366 and $532, and the cheapest MINT 9 in two years was $210 in May 2026 against a dearest of $850 in June 2026, thirteen days apart. The grade below trades close behind: six NM-MT 8s made a median of $351. Above it the step is large. The four unsigned GEM MT 10s sold for $1,395 (September 2024), $2,790 (December 2024), $1,136 (October 2025) and $2,500 (February 2026), all on eBay, three to seven times the MINT 9 median in the same quarter. The only Goldin sale of an unsigned copy was a MINT 9, cert 98985174, at $580 in February 2025.

Where does the $10,492 come from?

From the signature. Six signed debut tickets have sold, every one at Goldin, and between them they account for $26,291 of the $52,185 total. Each is dual-graded: a ticket grade from PSA and an autograph grade from PSA/DNA. The order of prices follows the autograph grade and the date more than the ticket grade. The record, a PSA Authentic ticket with a GEM MT 10 autograph, sold in September 2024 at the peak of her rookie season for $10,492 after 29 bids. A GEM MT 10 ticket with a MINT 9 autograph sold in August 2026 for $2,379.

PSA Authentic here means the ticket was certified genuine without a numeric grade; two of the three Authentic slabs above are print-at-home tickets rather than box-office stock. The signed market is also where the bidding is: the $4,880 sale in August 2025 drew 79 bids, the most of any Clark ticket we track. Signed copies are counted in PSA's PSA/DNA population, a separate index from the 183 unsigned tickets, so the two figures should not be added together.

What else do Caitlin Clark collectors buy?

PSA lists more than thirty Caitlin Clark moments, from a 45-point game at NC State in December 2022 to her first pro-am golf round. Five of them sell often enough to price, and two of them are the games most often mistaken for the debut.

The two scoring-record games are the real alternatives. On 15 February 2024 Clark scored 49 against Michigan to pass Kelsey Plum's women's record of 3,527 points (CBS News); PSA has 43 full tickets and 27 of them are GEM MT 10. On 3 March 2024 she passed Pete Maravich's 3,667 with a free throw against Ohio State (NPR); 29 are graded and the two dearest sales, $4,800 and $3,850, were GEM MT 10s on eBay in 2025, each above every unsigned debut sale. The playoff debut, a 93-69 loss at the same Mohegan Sun Arena in which she shot 4-of-17, has ten graded copies and one confirmed sale at $238. The draft-night ticket from the Brooklyn Academy of Music has no GEM MT 10 in its population of 19, and its $2,044 result was a signed copy.

A Caitlin Clark debut ticket is a modern, well-supplied item. Unsigned, a MINT 9 has cost about $416 for two years with 96 of them in existence, a GEM MT 10 costs $1,100 to $2,800 with 37 to choose from, and the price above that is paid for her autograph, not for the ticket.