Dr. Beckett unretires to share sports card stories, analyses, and opinions, based on his six decades of intensive experience.
Episodes
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Jake Roy shares his sports card (mostly basketball) origin story - I'd like to say Jake is typical for guys his age, but no, he's more passionate!
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Rich sold all his cards at the last show and shares his feelings after the fact - it was a premeditated sale and we will see how long it takes Rich to build back better - in the meantime he will still be attending his usual shows including the resumption of his popular Adat synagogue show later this year.
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Does the sports card hobby have identity issues - how healthy would we say it is? Plus, what it takes to get kicked off my card wall, or at least quietly replaced.
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Would you attend a single-sport card show - I certainly would - assuming I loved that particular sport - I appreciate shows that have a known established distinctive tradition. Thanks Ken.
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Young Ryan Nolan has a great story, being a (vintage!) collector from his earliest memories - however in spite of his youth he has published a book, Spotting Fakes, and VLOG's many of the sports card shows around the country at shows, 52 shows last year!
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
I started selling some lots on eBay and, although bucking some conventional wisdom, am enjoying the experience, and it has converted a bunch of cards into a few coins (not gold coins!).
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Kevin sent me eight thematic ways he collects and displays sports cards and I commented as to whether I did it that way or some other way as we had some overlap.
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Friday Mar 04, 2022
John had saved up some questions for me and I did my best to answer them - the problem with the past can be that it was a long time ago, and he stumped me on his first question. Thanks John!
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
The last five weeks of daily podcasts in a very brief summary format in case you missed a few, plus additional insights that have come up in the interim including some more card wall videos posted to my YouTube channel - thanks for listening or watching.
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Seven more sports card hobby questions from the email bag - thanks and send yours to doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and thank you very much!