Filed under: Beckett Media | Tags: baseball cards, Beckett Grading Services, BGS, grading, New York, Sports Cards, Yankees
Beckett Grading Services has opened an office in New York City for collectors in and around the area to submit cards for grading in-person.
Conveniently located near Times Square, the office is located at 135 W. 50th Street on the 14th floor. The office accepts submissions by appointment only, but those who use the office for submissions receive free shipping and insurance on all submissions, which are then sent to Dallas for grading.
For more information, or to schedule an appointment, contact BGS Regional Sales Manager Charles Stabile via phone at 212-375-6760, fax at 212-375-6738 or email at cstabile@beckett.com.
As always, grading information and regularly occurring offers can be found at www.beckett.com/grading
Filed under: Hall of Fame, NBA | Tags: Basketball, basketball cards, BGS, chicago bulls, Graded Cards, Michael Jordan, NBA, PSA
Join Beckett Media’s Tracy Hackler as he talks to Lou Costabile, a serious collector of rare Michael Jordan basketball cards in this edition of Collect Call.
Filed under: Free Stuff Friday, Sports Illustrated | Tags: Andy Roddick, Beckett Grading Services, BGS, Brooklyn Decker, SI Swimsuit Issue, SI Uncirculated, sports collectibles, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
We’re back with another Free Stuff Friday — our weekly ritual where we try and get some cool stuff into the hands of our readers just for answering some simple card-related trivia.
How can you win? Follow the directions below and answer the questions below in a comment right here … it’s that simple.
Tips: Don’t try stuffing the comments box — it’s one try per person per contest and we’ll check IP addresses — and make sure to include your name and email address so you can be contacted if you win.
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Filed under: Free Stuff Friday, Soccer, Sports Illustrated | Tags: Beckett Grading Services, BGS, Landon Donovan, SI Uncirculated, Sports Illustrated, USA soccer
We’re back with another Free Stuff Friday — our weekly ritual where we try and get some cool stuff into the hands of our readers just for answering some simple card-related trivia.
How can you win? Follow the directions below and answer the questions below in a comment right here … it’s that simple.
Tips: Don’t try stuffing the comments box — it’s one try per person per contest and we’ll check IP addresses — and make sure to include your name and email address so you can be contacted if you win.
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Filed under: Beckett Media, Free Stuff Friday, MLB, Sports Illustrated | Tags: Beckett Grading Services, BGS, new york yankees, SI Uncirculated, Spirts memorabilia, Sports Illustrated
We’re back with another Free Stuff Friday — our weekly ritual where we try and get some cool stuff into the hands of our readers just for answering some simple card-related trivia.
How can you win? Follow the directions below and answer the questions below in a comment right here … it’s that simple.
Tips: Don’t try stuffing the comments box — it’s one try per person per contest and we’ll check IP addresses — and make sure to include your name and email address so you can be contacted if you win.
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Filed under: MLB, Stephen Strasburg, Topps | Tags: baseball, baseball cards, Beckett Grading Services, BGS, MLB, Nationals, Stephen Strasburg, Stephen Strasburg SuperFractor, Topps, Washington Nationals
While it left Beckett Grading Services not long after filming on Wednesday, the Stephen Strasburg SuperFractor from 2010 Bowman did make one other stop.
A flatbed scanner.
Here’s a closer look at the $16,400 card — front and back — as it rests inside a BGS slab. This is the highest-resolution image available of the well talked-about card.
(Click on the images for a closer look — the back is after the jump.)
Filed under: MLB, Stephen Strasburg, Topps | Tags: baseball cards, Beckett Grading Services, BGS, Bowman, MLB, Nationals, Stephen Strasburg, Stephen Strasburg SuperFractor, Topps
Beckett Baseball‘s Chris Olds discusses the $16,400 Stephen Strasburg SuperFractor along with Beckett Grading Service Director Mark Anderson and BGS Senior Grader David Poole.
Want a closer look at the card, which was examined and graded a 9.5? Want to know more about what to look for when examining Bowman cards for grading?
Watch and find out …
Filed under: MLB, Sports Illustrated, Stephen Strasburg | Tags: baseball, Beckett Grading Services, BGS, MLB, Nationals, SI Uncirculated, Sports Illustrated, Stephen Strasburg, Washington Nationals
It’s been about a year since Beckett Grading Services launched its SI Uncirculated program with Sports Illustrated, which takes a limited quantity of the long-collected magazine and slabs the copies in a permanent holder in their condition as found directly from the printing plant.
And, about a year after the program’s first sold-out issue (Bryce Harper‘s debut cover), another member of the Washington Nationals has had his debut SI cover sell out, too.
You might know him … he’s Stephen Strasburg.
The Uncirculated concept is simple — it’s one modeled after mint set coins with a touch of the professional grading feel commonly used for baseball cards and comic books. The magazines aren’t graded but they are shipped directly from the printer and placed into the slabs with an Uncirculated notation. Once a limited number of copies are encased, there are no more produced.
Only 35 copies of the Strasburg issue were encased — and all were gone less than two hours after arrival at $24.99 a pop. Other sold-out issues include the Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup championship issue, a pair of University of Alabama covers featuring Heisman winner Mark Ingram, Derek Jeter‘s Sportsman of the Year cover, the New Orleans Saints‘ Super Bowl championship, Sidney Crosby‘s Winter Olympics goal and a Matt Ryan NFL preview issue.
It’s reflective of a trend that should be obvious to magazine collectors and memorabilia collectors as well. Debut issues and key moments like championships are often the issues that are the most-coveted.
To see what other issues remain available click the link above or click here.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
Filed under: Beckett Media, non-sports sets | Tags: Avatar, BGS, Breyent, heroes, NBC, Non-Sport Update, non-sports cards, Philly Non-sport show, Rittenhouse, Roxanne Toser, Topps
Next weekend (May 1-2) is the 52nd Philly Non-Sport Show in Allentown, Pa. Beckett Grading Services will be at the show accepting submissions and answering your questions on both days of the show.
BGS has two exclusive graded promo cards created for the show that we will be giving away today in the “Free Stuff Friday” giveaway. Thanks to Breygent and Rittenhouse for allowing us to give away these cool cards before anyone else!
Beckett Grading’s Andy Broome got a chance to chat with Roxanne Toser, publisher of Non-Sport Update, about the upcoming show.
Filed under: Free Stuff Friday, non-sports sets, rittenhouse archives | Tags: BGS, Claire Bennet, Free Stuff Friday, Hayden Panettiere, heroes, Heroes promo card, NBC, non-sports cards, Philly Non-sport show, rittenhouse archives, Tv memorabilia
We’re back with another Free Stuff Friday our weekly ritual where we try and get some cool stuff into the hands of our readers just for answering some simple card-related trivia.
How can you win? Follow the directions below and answer the questions below in a comment right here … it’s that simple.
Tips: Don’t try stuffing the comments box — we’ll check IP addresses — and make sure to include your name and email address so you can be contacted if you win. (Also note that you will see your comment on your screen after posting but that does not indicate its order of posting as it has not yet been approved. WordPress’ time-stamping of comments once all are approved will determine the winner.)
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Filed under: Beckett Media | Tags: Beckett Grading, Beckett.com, BGS, Canada, JSA, Wizard magazine, Wizard World
Beckett Grading Services, the industry leader in providing collectors with the finest, most thorough, consistent and accurate grading efforts available, and James Spence Authentication, the foremost autograph authentication company in the world, will be joining the remaining eight-city 2010 Wizard Comic Con Tour with Anaheim, Calif., as the first stop.
Filed under: Free Stuff Friday, NHL | Tags: BCCG, BGS, Detroit Red Wings, Hockey, hockey cards, Montreal Canadiens, NHL
We’re back with another Free Stuff Friday our weekly ritual where we try and get some cool stuff into the hands of our readers just for answering some simple card-related trivia.
How can you win? Follow the directions below and answer the questions below in a comment right here … it’s that simple.
Tips: Don’t try stuffing the comments box — we’ll check IP addresses — and make sure to include your name and email address so you can be contacted if you win. (Also note that you will see your comment on your screen after posting but that does not indicate its order of posting as it has not yet been approved. WordPress’ time-stamping of comments once all are approved will determine the winner.)
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Filed under: Free Stuff Friday, NHL | Tags: BCCG, BGS, Free Stuff Friday, Hockey, hockey cards, NHL
We’re back with another Free Stuff Friday our weekly ritual where we try and get some cool stuff into the hands of our readers just for answering some simple card-related trivia.
How can you win? Follow the directions below and answer the questions below in a comment right here … it’s that simple.
Tips: Don’t try stuffing the comments box — we’ll check IP addresses — and make sure to include your name and email address so you can be contacted if you win. (Also note that you will see your comment on your screen after posting but that does not indicate its order of posting as it has not yet been approved. WordPress’ time-stamping of comments once all are approved will determine the winner.)
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Filed under: Fleer, Hall of Fame, NBA | Tags: 1986-87 Fleer basketball, Basketball, basketball cards, Beckett Grading Services, Beckett Media, BGS, BGS 10, chicago bulls, Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan Rookie Card, NBA
A BGS 10 Pristine copy of Michael Jordan’s 1986-87 Fleer Rookie Card has sold for $200,000 in a privately brokered deal.
The card, one of only two BGS 10s in existence, was purchased by Georgia native Sean Storms, an investor who focuses on elite cards such as these. His plans for the card? To pair it with its other BGS 10 buddy and tuck them away in his private collection.
“It won’t see the light of day for at least 10 years, maybe 15,” he said. “I’m very excited to have the card.”
The card wasn’t easy to find, and Storms is seriously interested in finding the other BGS 10.
“There are only two perfect cards in the world,” he said, noting that he’s confident that the 10s aren’t comparable to the 9.5s out there, many of which have been resubmitted by owners seeking grade bumps multiple times only to have had the 10 elude them.
It’s not the only notable transaction of the year for Storms, who works in the solar energy field, as he sold a BGS 10 Joe Montana 1981 Topps Rookie Card for $65,880 in June.
Filed under: Hall of Fame, MLB, TriStar | Tags: Autographs, baseball, Baseball autographs, baseball cards, Beckett Grading Services, Beckett Grading Services slabs, BGS, Cut Autographs, MLB, Signa Cuts Limited Edition, TriStar
TRISTAR unveiled on Wednesday its latest baseball product — Signa Cuts Limited Edition — which will deliver one cut autograph per pack.
The product is set to arrive in mid-November.
The cards, which are slabbed by Beckett Grading Services but not authenticated or graded, are limited to either 25, five or just one copy.
That’s it — just one limited-run cut autograph card per pack — and only 100 24-box cases will be made with every box serial-numbered.
Get a look at the checklist by clicking here.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball and Beckett Graded Card Investor. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.
Filed under: Beckett Media, just for fun, NFL | Tags: Adrian Peterson, Beckett Media, Beckett.com, BGS, fantasy football, football, Hooters, Peyton Manning
Look, I know none of us really care about someone else’s fantasy football team. Heck, by about Week 6 many of us won’t care about our own.
So while everyone is still rapt in the warmth that only Draft Day can provide, I wanted to let you know that the cast of spares comprising the Beckett Failed Fantasy Football League conducted its 19th annual player selection process yesterday at, of all places, Hooters (seriously, we only go there because of the wings).
The highlight of this year’s draft – aside from the fact that I had the No. 1 pick (Adrian Peterson, who else?) – was the unveiling of a brand new championship trophy compliments of ad sales guru Brett Robertson, owner of The Other White Meat.
Filed under: Beckett Media, the National | Tags: baseball cards, Beckett Media, BGS, the National
Join Beckett Media’s Tracy Hackler as he tours the area around the Beckett Media booth as well as behind the scenes.
Filed under: NBA, NHL, Sports Illustrated | Tags: Beckett Grading Services, BGS, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers, magazine collectors, NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers, NBA Finals, NHL Champion Pittsburgh Penguins, NHL Stanley Cup Finals, Pittsburgh Penguins, SI Uncirculated, Sidney Crosby, Sports Illustrated, sports magazines
The championship Sports Illustrated covers for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Pittsburgh Penguins are now available from SI Uncirculated — a joint project between Time Inc. and Beckett Grading Services.
The issues are $24.99. The Lakers issue, which has Kobe Bryant on the cover, can be purchased here, while the Penguins issue, which features Sidney Crosby, can be purchased here.
SI Uncirculated was announced last week and debuting with the June 8 national and regional issues featuring the Detroit Red Wings and star high school baseball player Bryce Harper. (The Harper issue sold out quickly, while a few of the Red Wings issues remain available.)
Under the authority of Time Inc., this is a collector’s only way to get an uncirculated copy of SI slabbed by BGS — copies that were not released to the public but instead distributed directly to BGS for the program. Only a limited number of each issue are available. Once the initial offerings are sold out, they cannot be offered again.
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