Danny Black
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Sports Podcast discussing News and Investing for Cards and Collectibles. We will cover Baltimore Sports. Plus interviews, thoughts, and experiences from Danny Black! @sportsbalt on all social media. Sportsbalt.com Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sportsbalt/support
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Danny Black makes the sports-card market legible by pairing collector conversation with clear questions about data, scarcity, trust, and lasting value.
Danny Black treats card collecting as a living sports market, where grading data, scarcity, auction ecosystems, and personal taste all shape what a card means.
Danny Black brings GemRate data to the card table; you bring questions about what those numbers mean.
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A hobby-table chat about changing course, making smart card calls, and knowing when to leave nostalgia at the door.
Bill Buckner gets a quick nod, but the talk is really about the small choices that shape a hobby life: when to sell raw, when to grade, and when to park a card in the vault instead of chasing a display spot.
Baltimore sports talk that makes the quarterback-market case feel immediate.
Danny Black and Tim Barbales turn a Baltimore sports conversation into something more pointed: quarterback money, team timing, and the hard math of contracts in a market that keeps moving.
A grounded card-show conversation about local momentum, practical scheduling, and keeping events accessible.
The piece keeps local card shows at the center of Danny Black's conversation with Andy, and it makes a steady case for why more local and regional events still matter.
A collector-minded debate about making team cards, checklists, and leader cards feel worth chasing again.
This episode frames the ideal baseball set as a collector's useful daydream, with John Newman and Danny Black sketching what they would change if they were running the baseball card division.
A candid collector's ledger of hype, regret, and the names that still make people wince.
The episode captures a collector's familiar ache: the rush of believing a card or player is about to pay off, followed by the reality of a miss.
A practical look at prospect buying, with enough banter to keep it moving.
This episode treats card prospecting as a practical hobby, not a mystery. John Newman and Danny Black walk through how they pick MLB prospects to buy, why timing matters, and where first cardboard appearances fit into the call.
A hobby-floor debate about which cards still matter when scarcity does the talking.
Here, the hobby talk stays grounded in what still moves and what sits. Danny Black and John Newman trade jokes from Strongsville and a few other stops before settling on the practical question: which cards keep their pull when scarcity does most of the talking.
Topps conference chatter, redemption oddities, and a collector's-eye view of where the hobby is headed.
Card Mensches keeps its footing when it treats the Topps conference in Arizona like a real business gathering, not a headlines-first spectacle.
Beach volleyball, from inside the bracket.
Host Danny Black explores the incredible dual life of Moe Berg, a mediocre backup Major League Baseball catcher in the 1920s and 30s who was secretly a spy for the U.S.
Danny Black opens with a straightforward idea.
Danny Black centers this Sportsball episode on Center Stage, the card-scanning app he says helped his daughter Summer catalog thousands of cards in days.
Danny Black interviews Brian Dwyer, president of Robert Edward Auctions, about how REA evaluates, catalogs, and sells sports cards, memorabilia, and non-sports collectibles.
Danny Black speaks with Cindy Dick of OnHerMark.com about vintage women’s sports cards, starting with why she uses 1972 as a cutoff and tracing the line back to trade cards from the 1850s.
Danny Black interviews Mike from Junk Wax Hero, a YouTube creator whose channel started in July 2021 and reached a little over 2,500 subscribers after a 56-day posting streak.
Danny Black interviews Ryan, founder of GemRate, about sports card grading data, transparency, and hobby trends.
Danny Black opens by tying his Baltimore Orioles gallery experience to sports art and memorabilia, then introduces Brooklyn artist Graig Kreindler.
Danny Black brings on Horatio Ruiz after reading a Sports Collectors Daily article.
Danny Black shares his experience buying a raw 1957 Topps card through PWCC's Mike Baker authentication program, discussing the challenges of finding trustworthy raw card sources.
Danny Black and John Newman spend the episode on the cards and players they backed too hard, then watched drift off course.
The hosts kick off with a Friday check-in and a joke about whether it has been one week or two.
Episode three stays with raw cards.
Episode 12 is a hobby-table conversation.
Danny Black opens by framing Sports Vault as Sports Baltimore, then brings in Tim Barbales for a loose, familiar conversation.
John Newman opens the show with Danny Black and sets up a prospecting conversation.
Danny Black and John Newman kick things off with a simple hobby question: if they were handed the new baseball-card division at Topps and Fanatics, what would they build?
Danny Black opens with his cousin Oz, the people's mailman, for a laid-back Sports Ball conversation about sports cards, collectibles, and hobby life.
John Newman opens Episode 7 of Card Mensches with Danny Black nearby and gets straight to the sponsors and the week's hobby news.
The episode opens with NFL playoff picks.
John Newman and Danny Black open from Strongsville and Cleveland, Ohio, then settle into a hobby-specific back-and-forth.
Danny Black opens a special family-dinner edition of Sports Ball with Tony and Oz from Cousins Collectibles.