Refractor Rants: A Sports Card Podcast

This week TV and Max discuss all the parallels in 2023 Topps Update, Max's time at the recent Hofstra Sports Card Show, and our recent buys from eBay.

This week Max and TV talk about their past weekend card show pickups, the Topps Tacofractor promotion, and how Max traded for a 2018 Shohei Ohtani Red Ink rookie auto.

This week Max and TV are joined by esteemed card collector and dealer Alex aka @saratogaslabs on social media. We talk about how he pulled an orange Mike Trout Bowman 1st auto in 2009, what the best Tiger Woods cards are, the news about the duplicate superfractors and the bounty, and so much more.

This week TV and Max discuss the 2023 Topps Allen & Ginter checklist, review Max's experience at the Philadelphia Card Show, and go in depth on Max's new PSA submission strategy.

This week we are joined by esteemed college football card expert Gabey Card Stacks. We preview the 2023 Bowman Chrome U Football Card product, discuss collecting team color match college cards, and Gabey's tips for flipping cards on COMC.

This week Max and TV discuss Max's travels to the Burbank and Dallas card shows. Max went to these card shows in back to back weekends and made so many deals that we recap here. Listen to hear about the damaged Trevor Lawrence Kaboom, Albert Pujols nasty patch, how Max hates being asked what his bottom is, etc. Sports cards, card show pickups.

This week Max and TV discuss some changes in hobby industry leadership, discuss Max's recent card show experience, and what we are buying in the lead up to the NBA season.  We start off discussing Brian Gray's departure from Leaf trading cards and some of the highlights of his tenure including the Harambe card and Pop Century. We then discuss Max's time at the Hobby Slam card show in M...

This week Max and TV are joined by esteemed card collector and dealer @DelcoRips. Alex comes on and discusses his start with card dealing, his favorite basketball sets, and life as a Philly card show runner.

This week Max and TV discuss the Roberto Clemente "1st Bowman", Frozenfractors, and COMC buys.

This week TV and Max are joined by the Collectibles Guru himself: Eric Whiteback. Eric tells his collecting origin story, answers the tough questions and discusses the train wreck that is Panini.

This week Max and TV recap the National and give our review of the show.

This week Max and TV catch up on what's been going on over the last few weeks, discuss the peak liquidity that is Ohtani and De La Cruz, and shoot the shit as usual.

This one is full of good anecdotes and hobby knowledge. Listeners beware.

This week Tommy and Max were joined by Ryan @PhillyCards25 to talk all things Vintage Boxing, Philadelphia card shows, and his collecting origin story.

This week we talk about the long term collectibility of Jokic rookie cards, Max educates Tommy on Project 2020 and we discuss our recent pick ups.

This week Max and TV host Will Stern - collector and writer. We discuss his tennis card collection, historical collectibles, and the best day of a nun treasurer's life. Follow him @willstern_ on Twitter and subscribe to his newsletter.

This week are back from our short hiatus to talk Max's trip to the Dallas Card Show, how he traded his t206 Ty Cobb for a Mike Trout 1st Bowman auto, and catch up on how Tommy's move went.

This week TV and Max give some updates on their moves, discuss a rare political prospecting win and how Max is preparing for the Dallas Card Show.

This week Max and TV discuss the new Netflix docuseries the King of Collectibles, Max's recent pick ups, and reflect on the journey it's been since starting the podcast.

This week @FTHBrock comes on the podcast to discuss Ludex, card shows and his Topps Chrome collection.

Podcast fan favorite @IMOMitchCards is back to talk his 1st PSA submission, his take on modern interpretations of old Pacific products, and gives tons of wisdom.

Idk guys, this one got off the rails. Lot of good anecdotes and lessons in here though. Cards.

This week TV and Max discuss Beckett flip flopping on grading scale, checklist number debates, and review Max's experience at the Chantilly Card Show.

This week Max and TV discuss the Chicago Sports Spectacular card show, the new Big League checklist, and miscellaneous card deals. 

This week Max and TV discuss Max's experience at the Philly Card Show, the card impact of the World Baseball Classic, and Tommy gives an update on his ComC value submission process.