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 ...

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.

AI has already impacted the hobby for pricing, identification and, to a lesser extent, grading. Pricing data can be scrubbed ...

A discussion on BGS's grading scale changes, Topps Basketball in 2023, and the Mint Collective event. Plus, a look at ...

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

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 ...

Following the February 2024 acquisition of the SGC grading company, Collectors (the parent company of Professional Sports Authenticator) is acquiring Beckett, another familiar brand in the hobby space ...

A Steph Curry rookie card graded by Beckett, which is being acquired by Collectors. Photo: KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images Collectors, the parent company of leading trading card grader PSA ...

Collectors, the parent company of PSA, is buying Beckett Grading, according to reports. The report states that Beckett will continue to operate independently. Check back shortly for more details on ...

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.