Dr. James Beckett: Sports Card Insights

The second half of our Father's Day interview - we were having too much fun to stop considering three generations - a lot of laughter about the world's greatest hobby.

Sports Card Nation podcaster John Newman guests along with his dad and his son for an episode of all things Newman - hobby is the people - an enjoyable conversation! 

Long-time auction house Huggins and Scott has a unique approach - Bill and his son Ricky have enjoyed the ride together over the decades.

Rich Klein joins me as we interview the Broggi's on their sports card hobby involvement and leadership and experience together. 

Stephen Britton and son Ryan and Brandon Mills and son Jackson share their hobby stories in father and son sports card collecting including their families' friendship.

Jay discusses the wild ride he has had in his hobby journey recovering from a devastating theft, but now riding high, as he has applied his professorial  marketing savvy to his collecting excellence.

More discussion of a fallen comrade who had a huge impact on our hobby thirty years ago - literally trying to bring his cards into every home!

Brad Bethune and Rich Klein joined me in a discussion of retail - this was a small part of the hour-long live show, that you should check out.

Bill and I (with Mike Conroy contributing in the background) discuss the meteoric rise and fall of Lud Denny and his huge impact, marketing wise,  on the non-baseball side of the sports card hobby.

Eric looks at our hobby through the lens of a research psychologist and he questions what's going on with grading and how to make sense of that.