Dr. James Beckett: Sports Card Insights

John Newman and Rich Klein had thoughts about corporate presence at shows and in general greater visibility for the companies in our industry and I shared my perspective.

This is the first recap episode under the new format of every 25 episodes - in case you missed some or want a brief refresher - sometimes I clarify or amplify the previous episode - thanks.

Greg is an author and journalist from the UK, and more importantly a soccer card/sticker enthusiast and collector - I encourage you to checkout both his books on soccer cards.

Joel's Mint Condition weekly e-newsletter has become a must-read for me and I recommend it to you as well - here is Joel's sports card hobby origin story.

Five different questions from sharp listeners about our sports card hobby - send your questions to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com  and thanks!

Greg and I zoomed from England - Greg's highly anticipated second book is just coming out now (today!) to help us understand the history of soccer cards and stickers.  Thanks Greg

Jacob Burris had Brody The Kid, John Newman, and myself on his show last week and we talked about whatever Jacob wanted us to talk about - football season and cards.

Popular LCS owners and sponsors Mike Fruitman (Mike's Stadium Sportscards) and Rob Veres (Burbank Sports Cards) join me for explicitly expressing what we are thankful for this year in our great sports card hobby. 

Last Saturday the crew from Hobby Hotline, including Rich Klein and John Newman, along with our call-in guests, discussed preventive security measures to thwart thieves attacking card shops. 

Evan and I continue on with our discussion of music vs. sports as collectibles  - taken from his Radar podcast where he interviewed me - thanks Evan.

Soccer is extremely popular worldwide and especially in Germany where Torsten lives - when will soccer cards go into hyper-drive in America? 

Rob and I extended our sports card question and answer session to include his final question about balance in life and hobby life.

My baseball card vintage discussion with Mike turned toward our opinions on the Hall of Fame prospects of Pete Rose, Barry Bonds, and others.

Evan's podcast, Radar, interviewed me as a guest, and we drew parallels between record vinyl album collecting and sports card collecting.  Thanks Evan!

The Pareto Principle applies to sports cards!  Torsten and I discuss how and why in our quest to better understand the sports card market.

Rob, the Sports Card Therapist, sent me an interesting list of hobby and life questions, which we both answered on this show - thanks Rob!

Robin's exhaustive work on the intricacies of the 1962 Post football set is impressive - I wish I had access to his research back in the day (but it did not exist yet) - Thanks Robin!

PWCC's Director of Development Jesse Craig fielded my questions and explained some of what made and makes PWCC formidable in the high-end auction and sales space for sports cards. 

Guest appearing at Mike Moynihan's house for his YT channel - here are some excerpts of our vintage baseball card conversation.

Caught up with Jeremy again at the latest Dallas Card Show at Watters Creek - Jeremy was (fractionally) serving four corporate clients all at the show with his marketing and graphic expertise.

These were some of Brad's sports card questions for me excerpted and taken from his show - check it out - Card Time. 

Wall Streeter Jason Granet has concerns about our hobby and our need and opportunity to regulate ourselves before other entities decide to do so for us.

Young Jacob and I continue asking each other questions about the hobby we both love - looking forward to meeting Jacob at the next National!  Check out his podcast, Sports Cards Second.

Robin Pauls has done extensive research on this very challenging set from almost 50 years ago - he literally wrote the book on these cards and how they were distributed and why some of the cards and panels are so scarce.  Thanks Robin.

Jesse Craig, Director of Business Development, discusses the latest at PWCC as they are sharpening their auction platform in this dynamic sports card hobby/industry.