Videos

Rich and I discuss the relative merits of the 1976 and 1977 Topps 660-card baseball sets from back when Topps was pretty much the only game in town.

Brad Bethune tells Rich and me what his experience was like getting back into the sports card hobby after an extended break - he found it overwhelming.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-m38wh-10b430a I won two boxes of this innovative and overlooked product in the latest Huggins and Scott Auction - I opened the box and got almost exactly what I predicted - is that why this product was never really that successful?

Adam is a basketball card fanatic after all - so not surprising that we carried over to an additional set of interesting dueling basketball card questions.

It seems sports card collectors never run out of interesting questions and I am thankful for that. You can easily send yours to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and thanks.

Drew Herndon and Sam Shuford were my co-hosts taking listener and viewer live questions - this was a short interesting thread about cooperative support of your LCS.

Kyle and have both been (and are still) educators at heart - this episode is excerpted from Kyle's interview of me on his excellent weekly basketball card podcast

Tanner and I both like to get a good deal by buying collections or accumulations in bulk regardless of the organization or lack thereof.

Kyle Johnson provides an insider's view of COMC marketing efforts, which will be increasing as COVID recedes, hopefully sooner.

Steve and I trade serious hobby questions and what if's - send your questions or suggestions to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and thanks.

Seven more listener sports card hobby questions accumulated since last time - questions are not connected, but all were thought worthy of inclusion - thanks.

Upper Deck has many interesting hockey card products and brands - we take a look at four different boxes courtesy of Chris Carlin and Upper Deck - thanks.

Victor, the Rookie Card Specialist, and I bat hobby questions back and forth, but strictly about rookie cards, their origins and values and future.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-erxxj-10c4e0d Fernando Mania was a huge in 1981 and the early 1980's - Victor, the Rookie Card Specialist, and I experienced it (differently) - however Fernando's RC situation is not as straight-forward as you might imagine.

Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-4nyte-10ccda0 Tanner and I share our understanding of these elusive collectible cards - their origin, distribution, and rarity - definitely not pack-pulled.

Stefan and Angela Loeffler refereed the hobby economics discussion between Ben Wilson and me - this is a small excerpted portion of their weekly live show About The Cards - check it out in its entirety (each week).

Brad reports to Rich and me about his experience at a smaller card show a couple of hours away - different from the huge big city shows we had experienced the week before.

A brief recap of the past four weeks of daily episodes - please send your episode ideas to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and thanks!

I am frequently about factors that could impact the investability of sports cards - here is a rather apochalyptic view presented on the exact 20th anniversary of 9/11 - I intend to be sobering but not depressing - but remember there are no sure things.

Kevin Sullivan and Monica Paul asked me to guest on their Dallas Sports Commission weekly podcast, Mic Drop - here are the sports cards excerpts.

Ben Ecklar, a stalwart at Panini, was a dear friend to many of us - his untimely death was shockingly unexpected - he made lasting contributions to our great hobby and will be greatly missed.

James Perez of Elite Hunters does not like the lack of respect for the word investment as it applies to baseball cards - is this a semantic issue? - does it depend on your definition of investment or alternative investment?

Victor Roman had a question for our group - whether parallel cards "should" be rookie cards, or only the base version? We spent significant time on the overabundance of parallels with apparently no end in sight.

Another volley of six listener questions coming from a variety of sources - send your questions to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com or leave a question/comment.