In September 2024, GemRate reported that Beckett Grading Services (BGS) graded only 65,000 cards in August 2024, a 13% ...

In 2026, baseball card grading sits at the heart of a booming collectables market that values authenticated and slabbed cards ...

According to Gemrate and data from November of 2025, Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) graded 1.66 million cards. ...

Professional Sports Authenticator's parent company Collectors purchased Beckett, PSA's longtime rival in the card grading and authentication industry. Monetary terms of the deal were not made ...

For the second time in the last two years, trading card giant Collectors has consolidated the grading and authentication industry by acquiring a competitor to the company’s premier brand, PSA.

According to GemRate, 2025 was busy year for card grading as demand surged. PSA continued to dominate but the consumer demand ...

Dan Hajducky is a staff writer for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men's soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities.

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December, Collectors announced that it had acquired Beckett. It was one grading service purchasing another grading service.