Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-jdsj4-123ac3f John Newman (Sports Card Nation) and Corey Donovan (YamWax) were my co-hosts on Saturday morning's Hobby Hotline and this was our first major topic of discussion.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-62dg3-123ac39 Rob Veres suggested Southern California as the epicenter of the sports card hobby but he was shouted down and out-voted by the many Texans in the room.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-xkp5r-12282cd Too many slabs are emerging of some high supply and low demand cards and players - how will the market handle this equilibrium with grading fees increasing across the board?
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-e57xf-12282c0 Rich asked me to take a second deeper look at the hesitation I had before starting BGS back in 1999 - yes, I wish we had jumped in faster in hindsight!
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-fm4t6-123406c Grant and I had an extended DQ session that spilled over because we both had some good sports card hobby questions - thanks Grant!
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-q3c9g-123ac35 Non-physical cards conjured up many meanings - from NFT's to vaults to bank safe deposit boxes to fractionals - most collectors would probably rather just have the card in hand.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-nmr4m-123ac29 Mike Moynihan asked each of us what we wanted our sports card hobby legacy to be in terms of our content creation efforts - how we would be remembered.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-7pnjw-123ac1d This question was less controversial than I thought it would be - unfortunately the question submitter was not able to attend.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-k36vp-123ac12 Another dinner question that drew a wide range of responses from the content creators in attendance - thanks Kyle Robertson for securing a meeting room for us.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-h7hfa-123abfd Go to worldsofsport.com for more info on John's inaugural event on Father's Day weekend in Portland - with cards and much more.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-ixkj3-1239afa Our dinner panel discussed how to make the hobby more welcoming to women and other demographics and ethnicities through our podcasts and YouTube channels.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-bc76i-1236ae1 This was our first question as voted on by our content creator panelists that evening, even though the question was suggested by someone who unfortunately missed the dinner due to illness.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-74cze-1235830 I asked each of the 16 distinguished content creator attendees at the dinner to self-introduce and then declare their order of (content creator) collector, investor, dealer. Thanks Chris Sewell.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-ez98a-1234064 Grant and I go another round of sport card hobby and history questions - heavy on BGS this time - and some then and now stuff - thanks Grant!
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-874m7-1220ebf Another accumulation of eight interesting sports card questions from listeners and viewers - keep them coming to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and thanks again!
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-rv482-122cf58 Thanks Ray from Philly, Mike Steveline, and Victor Roman for your hard work on this worthy project that I enjoyed interacting with - every collector is encouraged to vote on your favorite iconic cards.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-9smrj-122cf52 This is excerpted from their hour-long YouTube show detailing and showing the ballot and my selections - thanks Ray from Philly, Mike Steveline, and Victor Roman Sr.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-xvjkd-122cf48 Ray from Philly, Mike Steveline, and Victor Roman asked me to guest on their YouTube show, discussing this year's ballot of 40 excellent and iconic cards for consideration - we discuss the cards and my choices - thanks guys!
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-9esxn-122b288 Grant has watched his conception grow and evolve into an extremely interesting and complicated product that has wide and eclectic interest - thanks Grant!
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-h3wxt-121c0d9 Shwe is investigating the curious and tragic case of collector/investor Dennis Walker - his mysterious death and the whereabouts of the rest of his world-class collection after all these years (more than 30 years ago). Thanks Shwe!
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-y657i-12282b3 Frank (and his surviving wife Vivian) founded and ran Baseball Hobby News, a very influential publication, which Rich and I, and many others, greatly enjoyed.
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-9bm22-1220ead I describe my auction winnings, namely a group of seven not-so-new football hobby boxes - I am a card collector, not a box collector - so I opened all the boxes!
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-22tj5-1220e9d The last four weeks of individual daily episodes summarized along with further commentary (in case something was missed ... by me).
Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-nxzgy-121c0ce Shwe is a journalism student and podcaster on assignment and we had a discussion about the exciting chase (that has always been) central to the sports card hobby.