Dr. James Beckett: Sports Card Insights

John had a number of provocative questions - essentially how green is our hobby and industry?  How big of a concern is this or will it be?

Danny and I exchange our hobby questions for answers and they were not all about Pittsburgh and Baltimore - thanks Danny and welcome to the Hobby Hotline team!

The last five weeks of episodes summarized into a sentence or two in most cases.  Let me know what topics or issues you would like to hear more of at doctorjamesbeckett@gmail.com and thanks for listening.

Rich Klein recommended that I interview Jade, his associate at COMC - an enjoyable time focusing on Jade's sports card origin journey including working in a card shop for ten years before coming to COMC.

I have known Mike for decades - this was a great autograph collection - even Mike was impressed - great to see an authentic baseball memorabilia collection that has not been picked over - the "good" stuff is actually great - see for yourself at tmnauctions.com

This auction contains a massive amount of iconic baseball autographed memorabilia from a non-hobby friend of mine - the catalog looks great - tmnauctions.com - we will see how things turn out as the auction closes November 6th!

One of John's questions was about card doctoring and what my observations and experiences over the years had been - it's a controversial topic - and we agree that goes especially when/if you are trying to defraud another collector.

Danny has recently joined the Hobby Hotline team.  When our HH group had dinner at the National, we decided to guest on each other's channels - thanks Danny! 

John Keating is back with some more sports card hobby questions for me to ponder and address - thanks John for the stimulating discussion!