Dr. James Beckett: Sports Card Insights
Opinions on Prices: Dr. James Beckett, coming out of retirement, stories, serialized, encyclopedic, covering sports cards, based on his six decades of intensive experience. Shorter format podcasts addressing players and issues.
Recent Episodes
1545 - Fixing Grading
Dr. Beckett discusses how grading backlogs, especially at PSA, hurt the hobby’s liquidity and confidence more than pricing, noting long waits, submission shutdowns, and the impact on modern product timing. He reviews the curr...
1544 - Hobby Dinner Convo: Clickbait Negativity
Dr. Beckett shares the final segment of his long roundtable (outdoor) hobby dinner conversation from the Watters Creek Show, and apologizes for the poor audio. The group discusses how many key cards remain ungraded, suggestin...
1543 - Out-Takes from Hobby Hotline 052326
Dr. Beckett, along with co-hosts John Newman and Brody the Kid on a recent Saturday morning episode of Hobby Hotline, discuss hobby safety after a report of a dealer being a registered sex offender, arguing promoters with nat...
1542 - Hobby Dinner Convo: Diversity and Inclusivity
lDr. James Beckett shares (very poor, apologies!) audio from a wide-ranging hobby dinner conversation at the Watters Creek Show discussing how to broaden sports card collecting across race, gender, and socioeconomic lines by ...
1541 - Ramblings 7.0
Dr. Beckett rambles about Vegas trends, his new Oh YAAS advisory role, PSA’s counterfeit report, concerns about game-worn relics, and gives a rain-soaked review of Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Platinum Hockey.00:54 Vegas Trends a...
1540 - Hobby Dinner Convo: Ten Year Forecast
Dr. Beckett shares a hobby dinner conversation from the Watter’s Creek Show with out-of-town collectors discussing how rising wax prices and the growth of breakers have affected the hobby, and whether breaking is good or bad....
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