Brad Bethune and Rich Klein joined me in a discussion of retail - this was a small part of the hour-long live show, that you should check out.
Bill and I (with Mike Conroy contributing in the background) discuss the meteoric rise and fall of Lud Denny and his huge impact, marketing wise, on the non-baseball side of the sports card hobby.
Eric looks at our hobby through the lens of a research psychologist and he questions what's going on with grading and how to make sense of that.
We listen to fellow podcaster Brett McGrath's sports card hobby journey as well as his vocational journey.
Mike brought his passion for collecting baseball cards and his technical expertise to the Baseball Card Hall of Fame in simplifying its voting structure as the project continues to take off.
Stepped Up basis may be eliminated by the Congress, which would affect hobby generational wealth transfer in a big way.
An accumulation of related questions and themes from Instagram on how I do hobby - spoiler alert - I am not typical.
Co-Hosts Brad Bethune (TX Card Dude), Rich Klein, and I fielded questions from this live Saturday morning hobby show about shows, old and recent.
Ray shares his baseball card collecting journey - leading him all the way to the founding of the Baseball Card Hall of Fame.
How do we maintain momentum and continue to sustain the remarkable recent growth in our great hobby?
Conflicts of interest in the sports card industry may not be illegal but they can be destructive to the long term health of the hobby if too many new collectors are burned (badly).
The distinguished panelists at the dinner in late May in Dallas had suggestions for how they maintain motivation and consistency in the delivery of their helpful hobby content.
Eddie and I tout the benefit of collecting the popular players from your schools or area - a great focus allowing for every budget.
The question of transparency - too little or even too much - came up in our group discussion - lots of expert voices chiming in.
Ray and I kept rolling as we referenced prominent baseball cards pictured on my (multi-sport) Wall of Fame.
The first question of the evening was: who inspired you in the beginning of your sports card hobby journey - a brief, but well-deserved, shout-out to many of the unsung heroes in the hobby.
We had 26 in attendance at the first Hobby Content Creators dinner, held immediately after the huge Dallas card show on May 22nd - this episode provides all of the 30-second self introductions. A great group and evening!
Mike Steveline brought his tech skills to the Baseball Card Hall of Fame project, but like Ray, his two hobby loves are baseball cards and the Hall of Fame. Voting can be accessed at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfCFhR_s6HCLB7IT-c4aB1QMeMXXW...
Josh had me on his Cardboard Chronicles show as a guest and we batted ideas around for 45 minutes - check out his show regularly - this was about ten minutes on a topic that I thought my show's listeners would appreciate as being largely a fresh take. T...
A brief recap of the past four weeks of daily episodes - hopefully something for everyone - whether you are a pure collector or an aggressive investor.
I confess that I flip cards - but patiently, and on a smaller scale - in fact my selling horizon is ten years. Whereas some flippers at shows barely hold cards at all before selling or trading them in the other corner of the big show. You need to really...
I kept the recorder going for this after-the-interview back-and-forth explaining some of the cards on my wall of Fame as John pointed some of them out and inquired about them.
John and I trade questions about his first and current "sports" loves. The questions do not have to be explicitly about sports cards, but they need to shed light on helpful hobby insights.
Six more listener questions on a variety of sports card questions - timely and timeless - please send your questions to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com so they can be considered.