Dr. James Beckett: Sports Card Insights

Bill discusses his leadership roles over the years as Beckett Media has evolved.

1990-91 was the pivotal year for hockey collectors with the debut of several hobby mainstay products. 

Veteran advanced collector Ken Marks discusses his master set of 1961 Post baseball and more.

Exciting news that collector-extraordinaire Nat Turner along with some other serious financial investment entities have reached agreement to purchase PSA (Collectors Universe) hence taking the company private ... for $700,000,000, that's 700 million dollars!  

Rich and I enjoyably break a couple of Archives baseball hobby boxes (masked up and behind a wall) courtesy of Dane Coenen of Dynasty Breaks.

Stuff from our conversation that did not make the finished episodes including my fantasy five basketball starting line-up.

A couple of stories about my departed friend Frank Steele, who was a true Baseball Hall of Famer in this industry.

John Newman's very entertaining podcast show, Sports Card Nation, included a roundtable discussion of Content Creation in the hobby as well predictions from 2021.  Please listen to his whole episode, but this here contains some of my comments and second thoughts afterward.

Rich Klein has been on so many of these episodes always adding his wonderful stories - this is my opportunity to say thank you to my friend Rich.

I give Adam my top ten and he comments and compares to other rankings he has received in his Basketball Card Fanatic e-Magazine (available for free at [email protected]).