Last Thursday, the hobby world was shocked by a surprise announcement that Topps, which has made baseball cards for 70 years, would be losing both its MLB license, which allows the company to use team logos and names, and …
There aren’t many baseball card products that I don’t love. But generally speaking, if I were to make a list of annual releases, Gypsy Queen would rank somewhere towards the bottom. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with it; …
The 41st annual National Sports Collectors Convention is in the books, and wow, what a show! I’ve never seen so many collectors in a single place before, and the excitement started Tuesday morning for early dealer setup and ran …
This week is (finally!) the 41st National Sports Collectors Convention, a show two years in the making thanks to Covid-19. I was prepared to go last year before the pandemic struck, and the anticipation has been building for me …
Hi everybody and welcome back to another edition of Riiip with Brody The Kid!
This month’s blog is going to be all about The National.
This year The National Sports Collectors Convention is in Chicago, Illinois (Rosemont). It is like the …
Five years ago it would have been nearly unthinkable to guess that any Pokémon card would grace the cover of a Heritage Auctions catalog. It would have been impossible, though, to guess that the 1998 Wizards of the Coast …
For decades, PSA has been the leading grader and authenticator of sports and non-sports cards. The company ran like a well-oiled machine, rarely making headlines but always making money. Though the money part continued, the machine began to slow …
Last week I met up with a friend of mine who’s a rabid wrestling fan. In the course of conversation, he asked me a question that he had some difficulty articulating and I had some trouble answering. The question, …
In the past week, two huge pieces of news came out, each of which will have a tremendous impact on the sports card hobby.
On June 30, the NCAA announced that college athletes, long unpaid and unable to profit off …
Despite their lack of an MLB license, meaning their cards have airbrushed photos without team logos, Panini does put out some nice baseball cards. I don’t often buy them, but I had heard some hype about the 2021 Absolute …
