Videos

Kevin and I trade questions and answers about our hobby of sports card collecting.

Rich and I reminisce about the pivotal 1973 Topps baseball card set.

Ken and I go another round of interesting hobby dueling questions back and forth.

Torsten's favorite basketball player, even from Germany for the past 25 years.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-gh5ir-f386c0 Rich and I discuss those special instances where demand is strong for certain world champs, especially in vintage baseball cards, for example, the 1968 Detroit Tigers.

Obvious Karate Kid pop culture reference but also application to the sports card world.

Comparing a couple of nice boxes (one pack per box) from Topps.

Dane and I go a second round of dueling questions. Send your questions to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and I will try to address them.

Joe and I discuss how to get more kids involved in this great hobby.

Dick Allen is a deserving baseball Hall of Famer, who recently passed away.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-j8b2e-ef7a59 Upper Deck did not accidentally pop on the scene in 1989 - behind the scenes the year before..

Brief review of the past 20 episodes in case you missed some and are curious.

Lots of great info always from Hobby Hotline - here are a few of my comments I thought were worth the take-away.

Bill and I had some additional on-the-record conversations, brought to you here.

Bill has had an interesting corporate hobby history working for one company but three different ownership groups.

The 1990-91 hockey season and the debut of several new hockey card licensees put hockey fully on the map as a major sport in the card world!

Advanced collector Ken Marks discusses his master set journey with Post and Jello.

Rich and I opened a couple of boxes of this nostalgic Topps baseball product, compliments of Dane Coenen of Dynasty Breaks.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-q6kfy-f3ba05 Exciting news that collector-extraordinaire Nat Turner along with some other serious financial investment entities have reached agreement to purchase PSA (Collectors Universe) hence taking the company private ... for $700,000,000, that's 700 million dollars!

Adam Gray's Basketball Card Fanatic is highly recommended, a very entertaining and informative read!

Frank Steele, gone but not forgotten, as Perez-Steele lives on in the hobby.

An excerpt of some of my comments from John Newman's 100th episode of Sports Card Nation - you should definitely listen to his whole episode.

I am thankful for many things and many people - but today's episode is a pre-tribute to Rich Klein and his contributions to our hobby.

Adam, the "Basketball Card Fanatic", responds to my top ten list.