Sports Poster Warehouse -- featuring a wide array of sports posters. FREE SHIPPING on orders of $20 or more to "Hobby" listeners, through July 4, 2009. Use the link here.
Wax Heaven -- Mario Alejandro's great editorials on new products.
Hosted by Mike Schopp, The Hobby is WGR's new show for sports card and memorabilia collectors. Listen every Saturday from 8am-9am for in-depth information, interviews, tips, and tricks. Whether you have an appreciation for sports memorabilia, you're just starting a collection, or you're a serious collector, this is the show for you!
Beckett price guides are nice as, well, guides. But a lot of factors play in to the value of a card that the price guide can't help you too much with.
Take this 2005-06 Alexander Ovechkin Ultimate "Debut Threads" card. It books at $40. I opened it from a pack about two years ago. I put it up on eBay a couple weeks ago and immediately started getting offers for the card.
Michael O'Keeffe, New York Daily News reporter and author of The Card, a book about the legendary Honus Wagner T-206 card, joins me this Saturday morning (July 20) at 8 on "The Hobby".
Any of you ever see a genuine Wagner? Sunday, I saw the one on display at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. That's my only brush. If you've seen one, tell me the story at thehobby@wgr550.com.
Some collectors enjoy attempting to collect every edition of a short-printed card. Hard to do though. Take a card numbered to 5. You have to find each copy -- who knows if each has even been opened? -- then hope to pry them all away from collectors. Good luck.
The 1984 Topps set was loaded with rookies that collectors still find interesting -- John Elway, Dan Marino, Eric Dickerson, Howie Long, Andre Tippett, Jackie Slater, Darrell Green ... and these are just the Hall of Famers! I was an avid collector that year, and the card I remember everybody wanting was Seattle's Curt Warner.
My great uncle Cliff Fannin pitched in the majors, but my family didn't collect cards.
Upon hearing that an acquaintance of mine had discovered a great box of old baseball cards, a friend asked me what I thought the best part of that would be. Would it be the discovery itself? Or, the research to find out the value of the cards? Maybe it would be just looking at the cards? Or maybe it would be getting paid.
I was taken aback by a recent eBay sale of a Sidney Crosby 2005-06 The Cup rookie for $3,000, and another of the 99 copies of that card listed for $4,550 or Best Offer. Whoa, what happened to this $11,000 whale?
Most collectors can remember their early days with The Hobby, opening cheap packs that Santa left under the tree. (How long ago was that?!) Mike Schopp tells of his Hobby beginnings, and also talks about a star NFL quarterback whose cards he thinks are undervalued.
Listeners frequently inquire about grading -- when to do it, how it works, etc. Bob Snyder of Dave & Adam's Card World stops by to give some tips in that area. Also, Mike Schopp catches up on some listener email.
An area collector says he purchased a Mickey Mantle jersey for $40 at an estate sale recently, and he called back this week to tell us that the jersey has been authenticated as game-worn! What a find! Also, Tracy Hackler, publisher of Beckett Media, weighs in on what the Tiger Woods scandal will mean to his "collectability".
Mike Schopp says he's been unimpressed with manufactured letter patches, but he's got an idea to help make it interesting. Tune in for that topic and others.
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