Videos

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.

Peter Gudmundsson was my successor CEO when Beckett Publications was sold in January 2005.

This year is an aberration in many ways - no clear dominant sure-fire rookies have yet emerged in basketball.

The recent big three-day sports card show in Plano was a big success, congrats to Kyle Robertson, the promoter.

I was honored to be a guest on John Newman's excellent Sports Card Nation podcast, his 100th milestone episode.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-c7dau-f2a357 Bill discusses his hobby journey before and after coming to Beckett Publications back in late 1996, always having a sense of the business aspects.

Dane had saved up some questions from our earlier episodes and I had some questions for him about his breaking philosophies at Dynasty Breaks.

Eddie's dad had the foresight to hold onto some rack packs in their orginal state.

Alex and I talk about the gold old days - simpler times - from the local card shop perspective.

Victor has a great blog and YouTube channel for all things RC.

Further discussion on the implications of estate planning for sports card collectors.

Karl and I discuss his dad's collection and how it became a family legacy and memory.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-977kw-f0912a Alex Bell's card shop was operational from 1988-1995 with lots of local brick and mortar competition. Now card shops compete with the digital world of card sales and virtual community.