Sports Cards Live

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These are the audio tracks from Sports Cards Live (on YouTube). Host and lifelong collector Jeremy Lee is joined by passionate collectors, industry insiders, hobbypreneurs, content creators to educate, inform, entertain, and inspire hobbyists of all genres and experience. Sports Cards Live is an interactive livestream video podcast where you are part of the show as your comments and questions are in play. 

  1. 6h ago

    David’s Grail Acquisition Story + What If Cards Fall 40%? + Are You Collecting Cards or Prices?

    How did David Chase actually pull off the biggest acquisition of his collecting life? We get the full story behind David's 1948 Leaf Satchel Paige, and it involves an extraordinary chain of events. Then Chris McGill gives Jeremy Lee, David Chase and Joshua Adams a two-part thought experiment. Imagine it's six months from now and the sports card market has fallen 30% or 40%. Volume has collapsed. Hobby content has turned pessimistic. Everyone thinks things are getting worse. You look through your collection. What are you thinking? Now reverse it. Prices have risen another 30%, 40% or 50%. Volume has doubled. Everyone is euphoric and the hobby is hotter than ever. What are you thinking now? Would you sell? Buy aggressively? Regret not selling at the top? Fear catching a falling knife? Audit your collection? Or discover which cards you actually love once their monetary value stops validating the decision to own them? The conversation ultimately gets to something even simpler: in a hobby where prices can become absurd, can a $5 card still make you happy? And if every card you say you "want" becomes too expensive, are you really interested in collecting cards, or are you chasing something else? Check out The Hobby Spectrum at thehobbyspectrum.com and discover more about who you are as a collector. Visit AuctionWire.ai and use promo code SCL for 45% off a one-year membership. Check out Card Ladder for comprehensive sports card sales data, and use the Sports Cards Live promo code when you sign up. And check out Pops & Comps: A Sports Card Collector's Guide to Navigating the Modern Hobby, available on Amazon. Subscribe to Sports Cards Live on YouTube, and follow the show wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. 1d ago

    Are Sports Cards ART? + Why 1948 Leaf Is Punk Rock + The Story Behind Satchel Paige’s Iconic Image

    Are sports cards art? David Chase's acquisition of his dream 1948 Leaf Satchel Paige leads Jeremy Lee, Chris McGill and Joshua Adams into a completely different conversation about how we experience sports cards and where they might fit within the broader history of art. For David, the 1948 Leaf set isn't polished or perfect. It's raw, messy, inconsistent and unapologetically different. If the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle is The Beatles and the T206 Wagner is Beethoven, David sees the 1948 Leaf Satchel Paige as The Ramones or the Sex Pistols. It's the punk rock of baseball cards. That leads us from Andy Warhol, Banksy and Shepard Fairey into a much deeper discussion with Chris about pop art, mechanical reproduction, mass-produced art and the fascinating relationship between scarcity and the machine that creates it. Could sports cards actually occupy their own place within art history? And did the introduction of intentionally scarce cards, serial numbering and eventually the one-of-one transform a mass-produced collectible back into something resembling the individual masterpiece? We also look at the wildly inconsistent printing, registration and colors that make individual 1948 Leaf cards feel almost unique, debate which cards and sets belong in the hobby's artistic top tier, and ask whether something needs to be conventionally beautiful to qualify as great art. Finally, we dig into the photograph used for Satchel Paige's legendary Leaf card and the historical significance behind the image, adding another layer to why a tiny piece of cardboard can mean so much more once you understand the story it carries. Check out The Hobby Spectrum at thehobbyspectrum.com and discover more about who you are as a collector. Visit AuctionWire.ai and use promo code SCL for 45% off a one-year membership. Check out Card Ladder for comprehensive sports card sales data, and use the Sports Cards Live promo code when you sign up. And check out Pops & Comps: A Sports Card Collector's Guide to Navigating the Modern Hobby, available on Amazon. Subscribe to Sports Cards Live on YouTube, and follow the show wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. 2d ago

    Is This the New Hobby Normal? + David Chase’s ULTIMATE Grail Reveal + Buying in a Crazy Market

    Are today's sports card prices sustainable, or are collectors setting themselves up to relive the painful correction that followed the 2021 boom? Adam from Splendid Sports joins Jeremy Lee and David Chase to talk about changing your mind in the hobby. Months ago, Adam publicly said he was backing away from buying as prices became increasingly difficult to justify. Since then, he's jumped back in. So what changed? We discuss price exhaustion, the fear of buying at the top, whether collectors eventually become comfortable with higher prices when they persist long enough, and the lingering "PTSD" some collectors still carry from watching cards they bought during the last boom collapse in value. Then Joshua Adams joins the show and it's finally time for the moment we've been teasing all night. David Chase reveals his ultimate grail: ??? Not just another big pickup. Not simply another card on the want list. This is the card David ranked above everything else in the hobby, including a T206 Honus Wagner, and one he genuinely believed he would never own. David gets emotional explaining how years of buying, selling and consolidating ultimately put him in a position to acquire it without putting new cash into the hobby, why owning it makes him strangely uncomfortable, and what the card represents beyond its monetary value. We also dig into just how scarce the ??? really is, compare its availability with other major cards from the set, and examine David's PSA ? against a much higher-graded example. Which raises another question: when one copy has better centering, registration and overall eye appeal, how much should the number on the holder really matter? Check out The Hobby Spectrum at thehobbyspectrum.com and discover more about who you are as a collector. Visit AuctionWire.ai and use promo code SCL for 45% off a one-year membership. Check out Card Ladder for comprehensive sports card sales data, and use the Sports Cards Live promo code when you sign up. And check out Pops & Comps: A Sports Card Collector's Guide to Navigating the Modern Hobby, available on Amazon. Subscribe to Sports Cards Live on YouTube, and follow the show wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  4. 3d ago

    Why Are “Undervalued” Legends Suddenly Exploding? + Who’s NEXT? + The Real Glue of the Hobby

    Why can a retired superstar be called "undervalued" for years...and then suddenly explode? Guest co-host Adam from Splendid Sports joins Jeremy Lee and David Chase to examine what's happening with players like Shaquille O'Neal, Peyton Manning, Allen Iverson and Barry Bonds, whose cards have recently moved dramatically after years of hobby observers wondering why they weren't worth more. What finally flips the switch? Is new money entering the hobby without the old biases about big men, pitchers and certain positions? Are collectors simply getting priced out of Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Kobe Bryant and other top-tier names and moving down the ladder? Can social media attention actually reprice an established player's market? Or is this simply what happens when a hot market begins searching for value? Then comes the obvious question: Who's next? Tim Duncan? Hakeem Olajuwon? Roger Clemens? Greg Maddux? Randy Johnson? Jerry Rice? Magic Johnson? Larry Bird? Wayne Gretzky? Barry Sanders? Tony Gwynn? We also discuss why the era in which an athlete played can dramatically affect their hobby popularity, why the incredible cards produced during the late 1990s give certain players an advantage, and whether pitchers and defensive players could finally overcome some of the hobby's longest-standing biases. But the conversation eventually leads somewhere bigger. Are GOATs really the glue holding the hobby together? Or is the hobby actually built on everything beneath that level: hometown heroes, favorite players, childhood memories, nostalgia, personal connections and the cards that remind us of meaningful moments in our lives? Because sometimes all it takes is one moment to create a collector. Check out The Hobby Spectrum at thehobbyspectrum.com and discover more about who you are as a collector. Visit AuctionWire.ai and use promo code SCL for 45% off a one-year membership. Check out Card Ladder for comprehensive sports card sales data, and use the Sports Cards Live promo code when you sign up. And check out Pops & Comps: A Sports Card Collector's Guide to Navigating the Modern Hobby, available on Amazon. Subscribe to Sports Cards Live on YouTube, and follow the show wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  5. 3d ago

    Dipping Into a 401(k) for a ’52 Mantle + Favorite vs. Most Valuable Cards + SPA Grading Wants Your Altered Cards

    We kick things off with another completely serious update from SPA Grading, which is now actively soliciting your trimmed, altered, counterfeit, restored and otherwise "improved" cards. And in the interest of complete transparency, SPA has decided to set expectations appropriately low right from the beginning. Then our guest co-host Adam from Splendid Sports joins Jeremy Lee and David Chase and brings out one of the hobby's most iconic cards: his 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle. Adam tells the story of how he acquired the card, including selling another major card and dipping into his 401(k) to make the purchase happen. Was moving money out of a traditional retirement investment and into one of the hobby's ultimate blue-chip cards a crazy decision, or a calculated one? That leads into a broader conversation about grails, financial risk, completing collecting goals, and the difference between your most valuable card, your favorite card and your most sentimental card. Adam also explains the family connection behind his Mickey Mantle collection, why his 1955 Bowman and 1956 Topps Mantles may mean even more to him than his 1952 Topps, and why he believes Mantle's true 1951 Bowman rookie remains undervalued relative to the legendary 1952 Topps. Check out The Hobby Spectrum at thehobbyspectrum.com and discover more about who you are as a collector. Visit AuctionWire.ai and use promo code SCL for 45% off a one-year membership. Check out Card Ladder for comprehensive sports card sales data, and use the Sports Cards Live promo code when you sign up. And check out Pops & Comps: A Sports Card Collector's Guide to Navigating the Modern Hobby, available on Amazon. Subscribe to Sports Cards Live on YouTube, and follow the show wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. Sep 30

    The Hangover: Cards Aren’t Investments? They sure can be! + Three Gretzky Rookies + Selling Cards You Love

    Special podcast episode of The Hangover from the Sports Card Clubhouse platform. Are sports cards investments? According to Jeremy, the answer depends on the collector. But if you insist they absolutely cannot be investments under any circumstances...well, he has a word for you. Jeremy and David get into the debate over collecting versus investing, why nobody else gets to define how you approach your cards, and what happens when real money, long-term value and eventual exit plans become part of collecting. Plus, Jeremy comes home from the Saskatchewan Card & Collector Experience with three raw Gretzky rookies, a realization that he may be a terrible flipper, and some lessons from buying cards on the show floor. David gives an update on his massive consolidation into a grail, including what it feels like watching beloved cards disappear at auction, and the guys look at some potentially interesting movement happening across parts of the hobby market. It's collecting, buying, selling, investing, arguing and probably offending a few people along the way. Welcome to The Hangover. Check out The Hobby Spectrum and discover what kind of collector you are at thehobbyspectrum.com. Follow Sports Cards Live and Sports Card Clubhouse for more hobby conversations, interviews and commentary. And as always, collect what you love, however you choose to collect it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. Sep 26

    What Would It Take to Beat PSA? + Is Today’s Grading Model Obsolete? + SPA Grading Goes Corporate

    What would it actually take for another grading company to seriously challenge PSA? Grai Miller, David Chase, Joshua Adams and I close out the show by digging into one of the hobby’s biggest competitive questions. Is a recognizable name enough? Does it have to be a trusted hobby brand? Could a company like Fanatics enter the space and immediately become a legitimate player? Or would the real threat to PSA have to come from something completely different? We look back at why Beckett was once able to become a major competitor so quickly, why so many grading companies have failed to seriously threaten PSA since, and whether the next major disruption will even resemble the grading model we know today. Technology, consistency, population reports, set registries, grading guarantees and the power of the PSA brand all enter the conversation. And because apparently no serious discussion about grading can happen anymore without it, SPA Grading returns with more details about its revolutionary approach to the hobby, its highly questionable population reports and the continued miracle that is Hart’s Hog Care Sports Card Formula. We also wrap up Graig Miller’s debut as the first Sports Cards Live guest co-host. Subscribe to Sports Cards Live on YouTube and wherever you listen to podcasts. Discover where you fit in the hobby at thehobbyspectrum.com. Search auctions across the hobby at AuctionWire.ai and use promo code SCL for 45% off your first year. Check out Pops & Comps on Amazon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. Sep 25

    Cards, Memories & Regret + Blowing Up a Collection for One Card + Can PSA Be Dethroned?

    Some collectibles can be replaced. Others take a piece of their story with them when they're gone. We continue our conversation about hobby regrets with an incredible Jesse Owens Olympic story that raises a much bigger question: what actually makes something irreplaceable? Is it rarity, value, provenance, the story attached to it, or simply the memories you made while owning it? That leads us into whether owning a card once can sometimes be enough, why certain cards immediately go back onto the want list while others don't, and how sharing our collections may change the experience of ownership itself. Then David Chase reveals that he's in the middle of a massive collection consolidation. More than 60 cards are on the way out as he works toward something much bigger, but he's not ready to tell us what it is yet. And finally, we turn back to grading. We complain about PSA constantly, yet the hobby continues to reward it. So what would another grading company actually have to do to become a legitimate threat? Subscribe to Sports Cards Live on YouTube and wherever you listen to podcasts. Discover where you fit in the hobby at thehobbyspectrum.com. Search auctions across the hobby at AuctionWire.ai and use promo code SCL for 45% off your first year. Check out Pops & Comps on Amazon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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These are the audio tracks from Sports Cards Live (on YouTube). Host and lifelong collector Jeremy Lee is joined by passionate collectors, industry insiders, hobbypreneurs, content creators to educate, inform, entertain, and inspire hobbyists of all genres and experience. Sports Cards Live is an interactive livestream video podcast where you are part of the show as your comments and questions are in play. 

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  • Creator
    Cloud10
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    787
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Cloud10

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