Since announcing the Mount Rushmore of Sports Card Industry Icons, we have been flooded with responses, nominations, and comments. Of all the commentary I have seen, it seems like there is one flash point in particular: should a player …
You’ve heard the rumors, you’ve seen the hype, and now I’m here to confirm the exciting news. You — yes, you — are going to help Big League Cards select the Mount Rushmore of Sports Card Industry Icons, and …
Thanksgiving is typically a holiday associated with football rather than baseball, but I like to tie in holidays to blog posts here at Inside the Pack. So in honor of Thanksgiving this year, I’d like to discuss the greatest …
Happy Veterans Day, and thank you to all of you who served. Baseball has long been tied to the armed forces, due to the humongous number of players who served their country in World War I, World War II, …
Hello everybody and welcome to the 2nd edition of Riiippp with Brody the Kid! How was everybody’s Halloween? I dressed up as a zombie this year, what did you go as? Today I am going to talk about the …
Third-party grading companies like PSA, SGC, and Beckett are run by humans and are therefore inherently subjective. Anyone who has ever looked at two of the same card in the same grade has noticed that one is better than …
Over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed a good amount of counterfeit cards being passed off as the real deal thanks to a bogus “certificate of authenticity” sticker. The sticker is very official-looking: it has a hologram, what appears …
Last Thursday, the National Sports Collectors Convention announced that the host cities for 2021, 2022, and 2023 had been decided. For those of us who are good at discerning patterns, there was no surprise.
Prior to the announcement, only Chicago …
Only three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and USPS price increases each January.
The current proposed changes, released last week, are some of the biggest ones in recent years, and not just because it increases the cost. The …
When I was a kid, going to a baseball card show was the greatest thing I could possibly do. Walking around the room or a shopping mall filled with cardboard goodies, I thought that being a dealer must be …
