Beckett Media: version 1

Saved 2026-09-25 05:07 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added Beckett Basketball Collector (UPC 009128482521), the newsstand UPC of Beckett's basketball card price-guide magazine. The barcode is tied to the title through UPCitemdb retail listings (Things F. This is the current version.

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# Beckett Media <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Beckett Media
summary: US publisher of Beckett sports-card price guides and collectibles magazines, founded in 1984 as Beckett Publications.
legal_name: Beckett Media, LLC
country: US
founded: 1984
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                 | type  | locale | from | until   |
| -------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ------- |
| Beckett Media, LLC   | legal |        |      |         |
| Beckett Publications | name  | en     | 1984 | 2005-01 |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref       | url                                         | title         | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published | record_id | locator | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------- | ------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beckett_Media | Beckett Media | 2026-09-25 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           |         | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Beckett Media covers the sports card, comic grading, collectibles and sports memorabilia sectors. Statistician James Beckett founded it in 1984 as Beckett Publications. It was sold to Apprise Media in January 2005 and renamed Beckett Media, then acquired by Eli Global of Durham, North Carolina, in 2008.[^wikipedia] Its titles included Beckett Baseball Card Monthly and the basketball, football and hockey price guides, which moved from monthly to seasonal editions in 2008.[^wikipedia]
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