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

What’s encouraging is we’re already seeing that change take shape — more diversity in products, at shows and across the ...

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

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

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

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

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

Funnyman Rob Beckett has revealed he is taking a step back from comedy to spend time as a stay-at-home dad to his two daughters. The comedian, 39, shares his kids, aged seven and nine, with former ...

In a significant move within the collectibles industry, Collectors, the parent company of PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator), has announced its acquisition of Beckett, a well-known name in ...

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.

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 ...