Dr. James Beckett: Sports Card Insights

Tom Brady has un-retired - celebration - confusion - certainly more upside than downside in the football card hobby, as Tom can add to his career stats - and more importantly, pursue another Super Bowl.  

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!

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.

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. 

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.

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! 

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!).

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.

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!

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.