{"id":10029,"date":"2025-01-21T19:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=10029"},"modified":"2025-01-21T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:02:43","slug":"it-is-with-great-sadness-that-we-share-the-passing-of-ian-allen-owner-of-south-bay-baseball-cards-ian-was-a-true-pioneer-in-the-hobby-and-a-steadfast-supporter-of-beckett-and-beckett-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=10029","title":{"rendered":"It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Ian Allen, owner of South Bay Baseball Cards. Ian was a true pioneer in the hobby and a steadfast supporter of Beckett and Beckett Authentication Services from the very beginning. South Bay Baseball Cards was the first shop to host Beckett Authentication in December 2016, a milestone in our history that wouldn\u2019t have been possible without Ian\u2019s partnership and belief in what we do. Our thoughts are with Ian\u2019s family, friends, and the entire South Bay Baseball Cards community."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Ian Allen, owner of South Bay Baseball Cards. Ian was a true pioneer in the hobby and a steadfast supporter of Beckett and Beckett Authentication Services from the very beginning.<\/p>\n<p>South Bay Baseball Cards was the first shop\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CZKilK2u5l\">pic.twitter.com\/CZKilK2u5l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Beckett Collectibles (@beckettcollect) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beckettcollect\/status\/1881803653268283717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Ian Allen, owner of South Bay Baseball Cards. Ian was a true pioneer in the hobby and a steadfast supporter of Beckett and Beckett Authentication Services from the very beginning. South Bay Baseball Cards was the first shop\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/CZKilK2u5l \u2014 Beckett Collectibles (@beckettcollect) January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":10031,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[51,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-10029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-grading","8":"tag-beckett","9":"tag-x"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10030,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions\/10030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}