HBO's Real Sports Will Cover Baseball Card Boom

[marzoumanian]

A simple head's up. I just read that HBO's Real Sports (hosted by Bryan Gumbel) will have a segment on the booming baseball card industry. It airs tomorrow evening, 8/24. It will be interesting to see the angles they cover/people they interview. Peace.

[mrreality68]

Agreed should be interesting

Also good for the hobby to keep getting awareness about to create new interest

[Snowman]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. I'll have to check it out.

[rjackson44]

What time please

[marzoumanian]

is what its website says. Peace.

[rjackson44]

Omg im in bed lol

[byrone]

With more and more extensive and high-profile media coverage, I'm thinking it's signaling a market top for the "hobby", or it's at least a warning that "jumping the shark" is in play

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by byrone

With more and more extensive and high-profile media coverage, I'm thinking it's signaling a market top for the "hobby", or it's at least a warning that "jumping the shark" is in play

market top already happened early spring. perhaps a signal of the great decline?

[Kawika]

HBO is part of my cable package but tonight's listings don't show anything remotely related to the "booming baseball card industry". Does HBO have more than one channel or might it be that I live in Canada? Any of you Great White Northerners have it figured out?

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by marzoumanian

I just read that HBO's Real Sports (hosted by Bryan Gumbel) will have a segment on the booming baseball card industry.

I don't think it's a good idea to cover only baseball cards cause' the real winners are basketball and soccer. If HBO wants to make this doc interesting, then they gotta' cover those areas as well.

[marzoumanian]

The website says SPORTS cards industry will be covered on the Real Sports show (hosted by Mr. Gumbel) tonight. My boo-boo.

[Snowman]

You can access it from the HBO app, assuming you have a subscription. Just log in and go to 'Sports', then click on 'Series', then scroll to 'Real Sports with Brian Gumbel'. Looks like it's a monthly show, so the August episode will probably show up in there tonight.

[aconte]

I must have missed the decline in prices because every where I look things
are still going higher and higher.

[Bobbycee]

I hope Gumbel keep race out of the discussion. I bet he'll make at least 1 passing comment about it.

[1954 topps]

Originally Posted by aconte

I must have missed the decline in prices because every where I look things
are still going higher and higher.

Absolutely, vintage prices are at record high levels. There has been no decline yet especially on high grade.

[jayshum]

I watched the show, and I still don't understand how the NBA is selling video highlights that some guy has a collection of that is now worth $12 million (down from $20 million). From what was said, the highlights can be seen online by others than him so how is there any value (let alone millions) in owning them? He said something about them being officially licensed NBA products, but I just don't get it. Can anyone explain it to me?

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by jayshum

I watched the show, and I still don't understand how the NBA is selling video highlights that some guy has a collection of that is now worth $12 million (down from $20 million). From what was said, the highlights can be seen online by others than him so how is there any value (let alone millions) in owning them? He said something about them being officially licensed NBA products, but I just don't get it. Can anyone explain it to me?

I too will anxiously await an explanation as that made no sense to me at all. They even played his "valuable" highlights on the show...I don't get that one at all...I wouldn't pay 5 bucks for that. Maybe he can sell them or rent them for commercials or something? Would he have the right?

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

I too will anxiously await an explanation as that made no sense to me at all. They even played his "valuable" highlights on the show...I don't get that one at all...I wouldn't pay 5 bucks for that. Maybe he can sell them or rent them for commercials or something? Would he have the right?

No, an NFT conveys no rights of use. You don't have the ability to license your clip to Nike or whatever. Think of it as owning a digital music download. You own the music, but not the rights to it. The only difference is instead of millions of downloads, as in music, there may be only a handful available of a given clip.

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

No, an NFT conveys no rights of use. You don't have the ability to license your clip to Nike or whatever. Think of it as owning a digital music download. You own the music, but not the rights to it. The only difference is instead of millions of downloads, as in music, there may be only a handful available of a given clip.

Count me as another that is scratching his head over these video highlights. To make matters worse, the collector's explanation on the show made no sense and made him sound like a desperate used car salesman trying to make sure his investment doesn't tank any further.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by mr2686

Count me as another that is scratching his head over these video highlights. To make matters worse, the collector's explanation on the show made no sense and made him sound like a desperate used car salesman trying to make sure his investment doesn't tank any further.

He supposedly spent around $200K and his investment is worth around $12 million so I think he's still doing ok, but I still don't get it. From what Scott posted, I understand that there may be a limited number of downloads available for a given highlight, but if it's available elsewhere online for free (or even shown on the HBO show) then how are people willing to pay so much for one? People may ask why someone will pay millions for a card, but if I own a specific card, then no one else can own that card. That doesn't seem to be the case with the highlights.