Hosted by Brett McGrath · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 999 episodes
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Welcome to the Stacking Slabs, a podcast for sports cards collectors. There's been a tremendous amount of change to our Hobby over the last few years and the one constant has been the passion from the collecting community. Stacking Slabs is built by the collector and lives to tell stories for the collector.
Brett McGrath hosts Stacking Slabs, a leisure show with 999 episodes published.
What does it feel like to collect a team with no history? This week, Katelyn is joined by Mark (@ramjamsportscards / @valkyriescardvault), a collector who has built his collection around the Golden State Valkyries from d
What happens when experienced business operators build a sports card company instead of longtime collectors? In this episode of Passion to Profession, Brett sits down with Gavin Hoover, Chief of Stuff at Tombstone Collec
Growth in the hobby is easy to spot. More inventory. More content. More followers. More customers. The growth that matters is harder to see. As your business expands, your role has to change with it. If every decision, c
Who's right? Who's wrong? Adam Gellman and Ryan from RBICru7 put the biggest wrestling card opinions to the test. Are we at the peak of the market? Will Panini-era cards continue to rise? Is 2024 Flawless WWE already an
What makes a football card iconic? This week Pack and Brett McGrath discuss one of the biggest Peyton Manning rookie cards ever to reach the market and why sales like this help define the hobby. From Calvin Johnson and P
What does the sports industry see when it looks at the hobby? In this episode of Built for the Hobby, Brett McGrath is joined by Scott Lock of InfernoRed Technology and Dan Kaufman, Managing Director at Sports Business J
In this episode of Stacking Slabs, Brett continues the conversation around taste, conviction, and building a collection that reflects your point of view. This is not an episode about what to buy. It is about how to think
Most collectors focus on the outcome. The card. The deal. The mail day. The auction win. But the best things in this hobby rarely happen overnight. They come from trust built over years. Relationships formed without expe
What does it take to build one of the largest hobby businesses in Canada? John Amendola, CEO of Mintink, joins Passion to Profession to share the story behind turning a pandemic-era card business into a national brand. J
In this episode of Hobby Jobs, Brett breaks down why “building for the hobby” is too vague to guide a real business. The sports card industry is not one customer. It is trust. It is convenience. It is liquidity. It is di
Ryan is back in the saddle with Adam for a loaded episode of Booked to Last. This week, they dig into the state of WWE booking, the impact it has on wrestler collectability, and why collectors are trying to make sense of
One year ago, we launched The Football Card Podcast with a simple idea: create a place where football card collectors could gather every week and talk football cards. Fifty-two episodes later, we're reflecting on what we
What makes a card worth chasing? In this episode, Brett breaks down the purchase of one of the most important cards to enter his collection in years: the 2025 Topps Chrome WWE John Cena Superfractor 1/1. But this isn't a
One of the biggest mistakes collectors make has nothing to do with buying the wrong card. It has everything to do with waiting. Waiting for a sale. Waiting for a content creator to talk about it. Waiting for the market t
The Connecticut Sun are entering their final season. For many fans, that means more than a franchise relocation. It means the end of routines, memories, and connections built over decades. In this episode, Katelyn sits d
What does it take to build a sustainable card business in a market that is still finding its footing? This week on Passion to Profession, Brett sits down with Bryan from THZ Sports Cards to discuss his path from high-end
Most people think opportunity in the hobby comes from knowledge. Know the player. Know the card. Know the market. Those things matter. But as the sports card industry becomes more sophisticated, another asset is becoming
Ryan is out this week, so Brett steps into the co-host seat alongside Adam Gellman for a wide-ranging conversation on the current state of wrestling cards. Based on the episode transcript. The guys break down WWE's King
At some point, every serious collector learns the same lesson: You can wait for the perfect copy. Or you can own the card. This week, Pack and Brett discuss how scarcity changes collecting decisions. When a card only sur
A Monday morning workout turned into one of the most memorable collecting moments Brett has experienced in years. While checking his saved eBay searches from the treadmill, he stumbled across two cards he had never seen
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