Videos

How do you respond when you get an unsolicited sports card(s) gift - at Christmas or during the year?

Deferred gratification is an acquired skill that can prove very helpful in the sports card hobby/industry.

Rich and I make some suggestions for Cleveland's new team nickname.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-dq5tu-f56c83 Val Marz and Jeremy Lee, co-hosts of Hobby Hotline, join the discussion of the impact of the noteworthy new round of investors in StarStock, including Kevin Durant and AJ Vaynerchuk.

Phil Spector, good friend of both Rich and me and so many others, passed away last week - truly missed by all who knew him - he was Mr. Hockey USA!

We got into it on the latest episode of the live call-in show, Hobby Hotline - airs every Saturday morning - I was a co-host along with Val Marz and Jeremy Lee.

Additional conversation on difficult Post and Jello sets from the 1960's.

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.