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Beckett Media is a firm dedicated to covering the sports card, comic book grading, collectibles, and sports memorabilia sectors. Established in 1984 by statistician Dr. James Beckett , it was originally known as Beckett Publications.
Cards are evaluated by third-party services, most often Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), Beckett Grading Services (BGS) and Sportscard Guaranty (SGC), and given a grade on a ten-point scale based on condition. [5] The images below do not necessarily represent the individual specimen sold but are representative of the given cards.
Beckett has three children from his first marriage. He is married to the former Diane Burgdorf, daughter of a Dallas car dealer and ex-wife of Sir Mark Thatcher. [3] From time to time, Beckett attends some of the most prominent sports card and collectibles conventions held in various U.S. cities and is considered a celebrity within the industry.
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The Beckett price guide is a graded card price guide, which means it is graded by a 1–10 scale, one being the lowest possible score and ten the highest. In addition, Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) grades cards 1–10, and can authenticate autographs as well. Other grading companies include Beckett, SGC, and CGC.
According to Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), the Ken Griffey Jr. card would become the most graded card of all time with the company; PSA graded over 50,000 of the cards. The Beckett Grading card service has evaluated over 25,000 of the Ken Griffey Jr. rookie cards. [28]
Derek Jeter was drafted by the Yankees during what later came to be known as trading cards’ junk wax era—when overproduction in the early 1990s sank the value of most cards to pennies. But the ...
A rookie card is a trading card that is the first to feature an athlete after that athlete has participated in the highest level of competition within their sport. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Collectors may value these first appearances more than subsequent card issues.