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Beating The Book with Gill Alexander

Beating the Book: The Rise and Fall of the Baseball Card Industry

Beating The Book with Gill Alexander

VSiN

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.7535 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Las Vegas Cris, who is known for his success in sports betting contests, drops in on Host Gill Alexander to discuss the rise and fall of the sports card industry. (April 7, 2020)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Check it out now.

0:07.8

No doubt now.

0:10.8

It's the beating the book podcast, Gil Alexander.

0:14.4

During this coronavirus pandemic, gives me an opportunity to do some shows that I don't

0:19.8

otherwise get to do during a full sports calendar.

0:23.0

Never enough time to do these random shows.

0:25.8

But today, I get that chance.

0:27.9

And it's a show I've always wanted to do, the rise and fall of the baseball card industry.

0:34.0

I think it's a story that hasn't been fleshed out nearly enough for a generation of folks who used to collect as kids like myself,

0:41.7

and really it was our first entree into associating sports with money in the first place.

0:46.6

It's an amazing story and has some real correlations to sports betting.

0:52.6

We get into it with Las Vegas chris who has seen it all

0:56.1

on all sides of the baseball card industry on today's beating the book podcast enjoy it's a numbers

1:07.2

game with your host, Gil Alexander.

1:12.8

Do you want those idiots who believe in analytics?

1:17.7

Good Monday morning to you. It is Gil Alexander right here on Visan, the sports betting network, SiriusXM Channel 204Vecent.com, the Visan app. Fubo, Sling, Game Plus,

1:23.8

on down the line. But today, I want to do something a little different. And, you know,

1:31.1

while sports are going on, when it's just, when we're on a hamster wheel of sports, I think to

1:36.6

myself sometimes, you know, one day I'd like to do a show on this subject or one day I'd like

1:40.2

to do a show on another subject. But you never get a chance to do it when sports are in full bore mode.

1:46.7

But there's no better time to do it right now.

1:48.9

And today, this was promised last week.

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