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Steve Taft: Counterfeits, Grading + The Truth About Star Basketball Cards | Sports Cards Live

Steve Taft has been collecting, dealing, researching, and studying sports cards since the 1960s, making him one of the hobby's true veterans and one of the foremost experts on Star basketball cards. In this wide-ranging conversation, Jeremy and Steve explore the evolution of the hobby from the early card shows of the 1970s through the modern grading era. They discuss how collecting has changed, whether investing has overtaken collecting, the rise of third-party grading, and why condition standards evolved the way they did. Steve also shares the remarkable story behind the original production…

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