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% ...

What are the top trading card grading companies? Card collecting is in perhaps its most eventful and promising era to date. With Fanatics on track to acquire the rights to all three major American ...

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

Like the four Cs of a diamond, card grades also work from a four-criteria system. The key determinants that make up a card’s grade are: Corners, Centering, Edges, and Surface. Beckett (BGS) is a card ...

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.

A professionally graded perfect copy of Michael Jordan's 1986-87 Fleer rookie card sold for six-figures recently in a sale brokered by a California auction house. The card, which was graded a Pristine ...

Some sports magazines are getting a digital makeover on blockchain. Beckett Grading Services announced on Tuesday it would allow collectors to store certificates of authenticity for sports memorabilia ...