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

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

As 2025 comes to a close, GemRate released its annual grading report, and Pokémon emerged as the clear powerhouse, posting ...

The major trading card authenticators graded more than 26 million cards in 2025, according to year-end data released by ...

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

Face” error card made mainstream headlines, another baseball card made it into the world with explicit language on a bat knob ...

As prices for rare Pokemon and sports trading cards soar, collectors are turning to "pre-graders" to decide which cards are ...

Collectors have quietly fueled Baltimore’s memorabilia market for decades — one driven by nostalgia, not dollar signs ...

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