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Modern technology has all but put an end to premium prices for sports cards of local players.

Rich Klein remembers his coolest job: Trivia writer for a start-up company called Sports Information Database.

eBay didn’t exist. E-Mail was something for computer nerds. And if you wanted to become a baseball card dealer, grabbing a few unopened boxes was often all it took.

Rich Klein admits to having a little extra knowledge at the trivia contest during the 1995 NSCC.

Rich Klein recalls a great find from a well-known collector, dealers refusing Jane Fonda’s checks and asks for your sports card brushes with fame.

by Rich Klein I had lunch with some of the guys I used to work with at Beckett last week and after we exchanged pleasantries, the first question they asked me was “What do you think about the recent licensing announcements?”  By now you’ve probably heard that MLB and Topps are staying together on the [...]

Rich Klein goes back to a show that didn’t impress last year. Was it better? He’s also talking the death of Ruth Ann Steinhagen and COMC’s pilot program.

Rich Klein recalls the early days of the Beckett magazine price guides and what went into picking a cover boy.

Richard McWilliam was the latest in a line of larger than life figures who have populated the sports collectible business.

It’s a mix of modern and vintage and Rich Klein says all of it seemed to be selling at a small Dallas area show that keeps working to bring in collectors and dealers.

It’s a small world says Rich Klein, who (almost) becomes part of a research panel run by a collector and then tackles the subject of message board rumor mongering.