Klein’s Korner: The World is Not Ending – There is little doubt the past few months have brought changes, big and small, to the sports card hobby. Some of them will continue to be fleshed out, such as the Fanatics announcement would be taking over licenses for...
Klein’s Korner: The Hobby is Truly the People – Good hobby friend John Newman, whom I was very happy to formally meet when he came down to the Dallas Card Show in May has a saying: “The hobby is the people”. And while many of us believe those...
Klein’s Korner: Record hobby history – If you are a regular reader of this column you are probably aware of Dr. James Beckett podcasts, of which I’m regularly a guest. Many listeners tell us how much they enjoy the stories of the hobby past –...
Klein’s Korner: Great down-time activity – I live in Texas. Usually those words are a source of pride and wonderful to say in the colder weather months. Having grown up in New Jersey where a winter coat was worn just about every day from the middle of...
Klein’s Korner: Women in the Hobby Catch-Up – Many years ago I wrote an article for Sports Collectors Daily about some women in the hobby. Nearly a decade later we’ll do some catching up and also mention some people not featured in the original...