Dr. James Beckett: Sports Card Insights

Rich Klein was my co-host and we were joined by a great and distinguished group: Rob Bernshteyn, Joe Davis, Josh Davis, John Keating, Chris McGill, Mike Moynihan, Victor Roman, Dave Sliepka, Bill Sliheet, Kristina Thorson, and Shane Zaiger.

We take a look at three different one-pack-per-box products from Upper Deck hockey and question exactly what is a hit these days.  Thanks Upper Deck!

The ninth edition of this question series - topics are food, YouTube, 10X/1.1X/1.25X?, Keltay, and vintage non-sports - very eclectic and hopefully a bit for each listener.  Thanks!

Enigmatic Bob Knight has passed at the age of 83.  You could not be neutral about him - he had his detractors - but his basketball success was undeniable - what can we learn here?

First World Series Championship ever for the Rangers - so how might this effect their card values going forward - is this a dynasty? - and what about those Diamondbacks!

Why has the National not historically released attendance figures especially now as the event (and the sports card hobby) is really on a roll?  Could there be a time in the future that Pre-Rookie Cards surpass major league RC's?

I co-hosted Hobby Hotline two weeks ago with Danny Black and Logan Ward and we discussed a variety of topics with our listeners and commenters.  Check out the whole episode in case you missed it live.

Society is rapidly moving away from cash in terms of paying for stuff, including sports cards, which would really crimp my style as I prefer cash for buying.  But there are "good" reasons for sellers to prefer cash as well.

My first card show that I co-promoted with old friend Gervise Ford may have also been the first show I even attended - Rich had apparently always been wanting to ask me about that.  Thanks Rich.

Rich and I had a question from Kyle (not Kyle Robertson) about how to promote and run a smaller sports card show.  I guess anybody can try to do it, but it's not as easy as it may look.