Dr. James Beckett: Sports Card Insights

My German collecting friend Torsten Bauer and I discussed the esoteric parallels between the distribution and inequality of income and card values - Torsten's graphs show how the inequality of both has similarly increased over the past two years of COVID.  Thanks Torsten.

I got a call from a private equity group inquiring about the investibility of our sports card hobby - as I am a pro bono consultant, I was happy to oblige - here is my half of the conversation.

We discuss Kyler Murray, Dak Prescott, Josh Allen, Tom Brady, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Matt Stafford - but NOT in that order!

If "vault" is more broadly defined, there are many vaults in this great hobby - many safe places to keep your precious cards.

Jason and I wanted to talk about regulation and aspect of chance and skill-based gambling, but our conversation meandered based on his Wall Street experience.  Thanks Jason!

Thirteen-year-old Jacob Burris and I had a simulcast where we went back and forth with questions for each other - way to go Jacob!

I drove over to Mike's house and he gave me the grand tour of his baseball card collection and "The Beast."  Thanks Mike, look forward to having you over here soon.

I was a guest on Brenn's Cloud 259 podcast.  Brenn's a collector and has hopes that track cards can really catch on.  These are excerpts from his podcast where he is asking me fresh  questions from his unique perspective.

Most gifts and freebies are to be accepted - but is there a catch? - especially in the sports card hobby?

Pacific's Founder Mike Cramer shared with Rich and me the actual production summary spreadsheets for these three baseball card products - very interesting!