Dr. James Beckett: Sports Card Insights

Bill discusses his hobby journey before and after coming to Beckett Publications back in late 1996, always having a sense of the business aspects.

Peter Gudmundsson was the successor CEO when Beckett Publications was sold to Apprise Media back in 2005.

Every year there are new rookies and new excitement in the basketball card market - but it's not all bad if this year is a little weaker than the past two years.

Promoter Kyle Robertson's recent Watters Creek show in Plano, Texas, was very successful each day of this three-day show.

I was honored to be a guest on John Newman's 100th episode along with Brody The Kid and Drew Herndon.  John's first question concerned the opportunities to get more kids involved in this great hobby.  Go to Sport Card Nation to listen to his whole episode, but here are my main comments from the show and my additional thoughts afterwards.

Dane had saved up some questions for me but I was ready with my own questions.

Eddie Healy shares his experience with his dad and the 1974 Topps rack packs they were able to resist opening all these years.  

Alex Bell's card shop was operational from 1988-1995 with lots of local brick and mortar competition.  Now card shops compete with the digital world of card sales and virtual community.

Victor Roman collects RC's of Hall of Famers in the four collecting major sports as do I - we discuss our respective approaches.

Brad and I had an extended conversation about several subjects related to the discomfort of our finite mortality and how to deal with our valuable sports collections.