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Live Saturday call-in show features several co-hosts and a multitude of topics - this segment excerpts the portion on shows, past and present.

Ray has founded the Baseball Card Hall of Fame - this is his origin story - how he always loved baseball cards and the Hall of Fame.

Minimizing conflicts of interest - eliminating conflicts of interest - identifying and calling out conflicts of interest!

Our first substantive hobby roundtable discussion concerned motivation and consistency as many weighed in with helpful tips.

Collecting players from your home town or your favorite area is a frequent approach for those who want to narrow their collecting focus but not by too much.

We went around the room of hobby content creators (podcasters and YouTubers) talking about transparency and the occasional lack thereof in our sports card hobby.

Ray and I continued our discussion as his gaze turned to my virtual Wall of Fame back-drop and especially those cards that are in his Baseball Card Hall of Fame.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-i9zi3-104ff05 How do we maintain momentum and continue to sustain the remarkable recent growth in our great hobby?

Each of the content creators at the casual group dinner was asked to briefly shout out to someone that had inspired their hobby journey - many were unsung heroes.

Mike Steveline has come on board with the Baseball Card Hall of Fame bringing his technical expertise as the project has grown and expanded.

I was a guest on Cardboard Chronicles - this is an excerpt - recommend you subscribe to Cardboard Chronicles and catch all of every episode.

A brief review of the past four weeks of episodes. Want to see more of something you like? Suggest to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and thank you!

Am I a flipper? Depends on the definition. If I am, I am a very patient flipper. Are you?

After John and I finished our Origin episode together, I kept the audio recorder going and we had an informal chat about my wall of fame and what we thought was noteworthy.

John loves baseball cards and soccer, but our questions were not restricted to those sports.

Ray Fonio aka Ray from Philly is the founder of the Baseball Card Hall of Fame Project, which is currently tabulating votes for the fourth year of inductions of ten more iconic baseball cards. Go vote!

Brad and I took the eclectic (hard to describe) route on each other with our atypical questions and answers this time.

Dueling Questions with Josh Johnson (Card Ladder) dove into some price guide philosophies, then and now.

You have heard "buy the card, not the holder" but this episode looks at some additional considerations.

Recent Topps products are compared even though they are from different sports - my winner surprised me and is potentially an indicator of the future.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-q3bmk-104973d 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!

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-23nvx-103c43d 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.

Six more recently-submitted listener questions - send yours to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and thanks for your feedback!

The chaos of the sports card retail environment is troubling - is it fixable? I think it is! Suggestions for how.