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[POD] 13 Card-Grading Secrets Only Vets Know! - Ep. 1.34
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[POD] 13 Card-Grading Secrets Only Vets Know! - Ep. 1.34

Getting cards graded is always awesome, but knowing some of the ins and outs of the business is even awesome-r!

Each “Happy Hobby Sports Card Podcast” pack tries to help sports card collectors working with limited budgets – like me!

Getting sports cards graded is really a new thing for collectors when you consider the hobby is a century old or so. But over the past 10 years, card grading has really become a war between companies, which makes for some good opportunities for baseball card collectors to get in on!

We share 13 nuggets we believe to be helpful to card collectors and card investors alike!

We also share another sports card trivia question, with a 1986 Topps John Elway up for grabs to one winner!

Patrick Imhoff shares another one of his if-I-were-CEO-of-Fanatics nuggets — this time about how he would revamp the whole Bowman suite of products!

Finally, we look at the best rookie cards from the year of 1981 in baseball, football, basketball and hockey!


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"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Newsletter!
"Happy Hobby Sports Cards" Podcast!
Happy Hobby! We talk about sports card collecting hoping to help collectors working with a limited budget. With a positive, family friendly mindset, we discuss hobby news and recent releases, while also looking back and talking about vintage cards and players from decades past. It's like opening a pack of cards with 11 with different sports card subjects!
This podcast is essentially the read-out-loud version of the "Happy Hobby Newsletter," published every other Thursday on Substack.
I’m David Gonos, former Fantasy Sports columnist at CBS Sports, Sports Illustrated and The Athletic. In 2021, I was inducted into the Fantasy Sports Writers Hall of Fame. (No, really, that exists!) I’m also a sports card collector working with a limited budget, so I create content based around just that!
I got my YouTube channel going in 2021, and I’ve been posting two or three videos up each week ever since. It’s a fun, free, festive spot to talk about cards, collecting and … cards. I don’t take myself too seriously, so I beg that you don’t take me seriously either.
We also do a ton of giveaways to subscribers!