Dr. James Beckett: Sports Card Insights

I was on Hobby Hotline last Saturday with Brad Bethune (TXCardDude) and Brody The Kid and this segment came up with respect to the recent press release and the certain coming of more tools to assist with pre-grading. 

We briefly recount the highlights of the past four weeks of daily episodes - if you have episode ideas, please send them to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and thanks!

Interesting news from PSA acquiring Genamint to enhance or lead their AI grading initiatives - this episode discusses the difficulty of AI Grading specifically with respect to edges. 

Some sports card collections are simply too large to be "shown" in their entirety, but they can be described, hopefully in summary form, drilling down for more details if asked.

Jimmy Estruch of RetroBoomin shares his origin story with us - he had written in and sought advice on shaping and growing his sports card hobby business now that he is full-time. 

Our modern virtual dinner guests (Ken Capell, Jason Granet, Jordan Hagedorn, Jeremy Lee, and Mike Sommer) each had an opinion of the value of budgeting in this exciting time in our hobby.  

Val, co-host of NASCARD Radio, and I discuss the history of NASCAR cards and other related racing subjects.  NASCAR is America's second most popular spectator sport!

Gabriella is a psychology major at Stern College for Women in New York and has both a father and brother who collect sports cards - she is writing a paper on our hobby and we discuss those issues practically and a little bit scholarly.

Detroit collector Frank Guastella and I fondly remember three great collectors from Detroit who were all outstanding ambassadors for our sports card hobby. 

How easy is it to manipulate the sports card market or at least the price or value of a specific card or player?