Dr. James Beckett: Sports Card Insights

Another six questions (with answers!) submitted by listeners, all concerning the hobby we all love.  Your questions can be submitted to [email protected] as an email and thanks!

This Hobby Hotline show (a weekly live show but I am on as a recurring guest once a month) featured John Newman (Sports Card Nation) and Rich Klein as well as the questions and comments of all the live viewers.  Hope you like these excerpts as much as I enjoyed the actual full show.

I give specific details on how I would configure an interesting sports card product/set that I believe could be a winner - especially intentionally for kids at a lower price point.

I make a case for the Anaheim National of 1991, the largest attendance and the first to really feature corporate promos.  Rich, on the other hand, has a sentimental favorite.  Finally, we both hope the next one is the greatest! 

Golf professional Frank Guastella and I compare and contrast returning to playing golf after a long hiatus, with returning to sports cards collecting after decades off.

A Dueling Questions episode with Joe's first question to me being about PSA's latest shocking news with regard to their backlog, and how it will be preferentially addressed for the next three months.  Then my first question to him was about how I should feel being called the author of the "bible".

There are 14 finalists for the Basketball Hall of Fame calass of 2021 - I don't have a vote, but I obviously have an opinion - here are my seven, who I think will get in later this year, starting with Paul Pierce.

Six fresh new listener-submitted questions - the easiest way is sending email to [email protected] for your question to be considered.

Today is Good Friday, and Joe and I discuss how "evangelism", that is, the sharing of "good news" could be applied secularly to this, the greatest hobby, and how "making disciples" can be co-opted in the context of training up new collectors to fully enjoy the hobby.

Why does BGS have subgrades explicitly shown on the label?  Are all of this past year's new grading company entrants going to survive?  And if not, why not?  Just my opinion.