The Sports Card Show

On today's show I answer several questions that listeners have sent me over the last few weeks. I discuss the Leaf Cal Ripken Jr Ironman set. We discuss some collecting tips including bartering, how age/gender effect collectors and what are the best cards to collect if you are looking for a safe investment. According to Bloomberg - Topps has over $200m in debt with a large chunk due next year. I d...

On today's show we talk about the recently published The Modern Baseball Card Investor book. We also field questions from listeners and more.

On today's show, we recap the 2014 National Sports Collectors Convention. I talk about the "crickets" pavilion. We discuss if company booth size was in relation to financial stability. We talk about the NFLPA - and what you need to know about the deal. Lastly - we have a listener question & stock tips.

Today our interview guest is @SportsCardNews from the 2014 National Sports Collectors Convention. We talk about the new 10 year NFLPA exclusive licence Panini secured ... and who you really should direct your anger towards (guess what: it's not Panini or the NFLPA). We talk about how it's been crickets at the Group Breaking Pavilion with guys struggling to sell through breaks. I even have felt bad...

Today's show is a long one! We cover on the 1st part of the the show a preview of the 2014 NSCC In Cleveland, OH which starts this week. Then I go over one listener question we got from our contest we announced on show #159. Finally, I talk about the NBA draft and the top 10 picks.

On today's show we talk about the rumor that has been swirling around the hobby - and that's Panini getting an exclusive NFLPA license to make football cards. I talk about who's tweets in the industry often foreshadow events like this. I also discuss a recent Topps employee calling the company "cash strapped" and one being fired for being "late." We discuss what Panini should have done with the mo...

We recap the Josh Cade @CardFatherX interview. I'm still confused about Josh "being a boy or being a girl" ... or "what seems like and what is are two different things" but I try to clear up some things listeners may have missed since Josh Cade didn't seem so open to discuss what really goes on his webcam each night.

Josh Cade conducts Raffles, Razzes, "Fillers" and breaks on his webcam. He invited me to lunch at the National .... I declined, mainly because at the world's largest card show, meeting a male webcammer isn't high on my list. He asked to call me on the phone. I said sure, but we would have to record it. He agreed. Enjoy.

The Golden Age of being a group breaker is about to end. I'm not saying group breaking is going away, actually it will become apart of the sports card collecting fabric even more as we move on ... but that will make it harder to become a breaker yourself. Don't worry though, "Golden Ages" exist in all kinds of businesses, just feel glad you were around (and possibly) profited when the money was ea...

On today's show we bring on someone I have gotten to know quite well over the last few years. Longtime fans of the show will remember him as StealSecond on the forums and he's got a new sports podcast launching next week so we talk about that. We spend a good amount of time talking about the World Cup. We also discuss the Razz (raffles) some guys think is cool to do. Finally we talk about some of...

On today's show I talk about the World Cup matches I've been able to watch over the last week.  A while back Panini sold 1/1 Panini Prizm Pylon cards via their own website - now they have started their own eBay account and are selling 1/1 "El Samba"  2014 Panini Prizm World Cup cards . We talked about Panini Rewards on the last show, and they are starting to filter onto ebay. One thing I noticed i...

Another short edition of the Sports Card Show podcast considering there's lots of great sporting events going on this week. We have the US Open Golf, NBA Finals and World Cup Soccer (plus NHL) all going on!  Panini launches is reward points system.  2014 Topps Series 2 Baseball  and  13/14 Panini Innovation Basketball  come out this week. We also talk about Panini Prizm Soccer and more.

On Today's show we just run down some topics of the day. NBA Finals are starting today with Miami & San Antonio battles it out for a second year in a row.  3 new 2014 Football sets were announced  - Prestige, Valor and Triple Threads. The 2014 MLB draft is here and we talk about the top 5 prospects from this years draft and look at what a few picks are doing from the 2013 MLB draft.  Topps is hiri...

On today's show I'm joined by a collector, who like many people, collected cards at an early age - only to pick up the hobby again later in life. We talk to him about a number of different things in a fun filled hour. Keep your head on a swivel, lots of sets are coming out this week including  2014 Topps Archives Baseball  and  2014 Upper Deck SP Game Used Golf . I also discuss the NBA Draft lotte...

On today's show we are joined by collector/seller @BaseballCard_JS. He has some great tips for people trying to make a little money selling items, and also tips on how to stick to a price when bidding on 100's of items at a time. He also talks about MLB prospects, and getting autographs & things to sell online at minor league baseball games.  We also have Buy-Sell-Hold on some NFL draft prospects:...

I recap the 2014 Industry Summit in Las Vegas:  http://sportscardradio.com/news/1673-2014-las-vegas-industry-summit-from-the-sofa Panini Rewards Panini's trying something new .... can't fault them for that! Personally, I see this as a brilliant business move if they stick to it. Long term, Panini now rids the obligation to get a particular player to sign a particular card. Why is that so important...

On today's show we are joined by @SportsCardNews from Las Vegas where we talk about the upcoming 2014 Industry Summit, Upper Deck's exclusive NHL Hockey license, Dealernet, and more. 

Before you listen to today's show - I strongly encourage you to check out a few folks I have been following the last month or so. First: BallCardsRadio.comOne of the most entertaining sports cards podcasts to debut in a while. Hosted by @LittleKingRadio - this young guy has great knowledge and interesting guests on his show each week. We interview Ryan on today's show - The interview occurs around...

On today's show we talk about how the actions of a few 'companies' in this hobby in recent weeks have showed how desperate they are for customers and/or profits.  Industry Summit bans yours truly & Brian Gray from Leaf because of some things said at last years Industry Summit. You know you are getting desperate when you care about what is said to only a few hundred collectors (at most). I've said...

On today's show we interview @thatDanRoe who has recently gotten me involved in a series of conference calls with Topps about their MLS products. We also talk about hockey cards and more. In the beginning of the show I cover 2 topics that were sent to me via e-mail.

What show isn't just my opinion??? Well, most of them are, so I guess this is nothing new. On today's show, we talk about how Panini, Topps, Upper Deck ... ect all tend to blame 'ebay' or 'the internet' for some of the reasons why people don't collect cards today. Instead of blaming them - why didn't Topps or another company setup their own marketplace to sell/trade cards?? Why blame them when the...

On today's show we talk to  @stevienixx76  about collecting cards in Canada.  He gives some good advice to those trying to avoid paying the expensive shipping fees some eBay sellers charge. We get insight to why he got back into collecting, and what type of vintage cards are hard to find in good condition & what he's collecting today. From now on (If I remember) every first time guest will have to...

This week I had the pleasure of going to the COMC headquarters in Washington State. I saw some really cool stuff going on and if I needed a job, it might be a cool place to work. They are growing pretty rapidly and it's all coming from internal growth. I talk about some of the things I saw and how you can learn from some of the things they do in your own business.

As many accurately predicted, this years football and basketball look like big time wasters this year. I think you should wait a while before you buy this stuff, because they'll have promotions & sell-offs once next years juicy rookie crops come rolling in.