Posted By:
Hal LewisGary:
I have plenty of "clues."
I grew up having to scour the neighborhood for aluminum cans to recycle so that I could then go buy baseball wax packs. I never had a card that cost more than $1.00 for 25 years... but I still loved the hobby.
Later in life, things had changed financially... but the love of finding a cool card for your collection is no different.
Like you said in your own words... if you could afford to spend $5,000 on a baseball card...
you would pay off the mortgage and so forth.
But THEN what would you do after that with your money?
The BEST thing about our hobby is that being "rich" does not mean that someone can just walk in and obtain whatever cards he wants to own.
Bill Gates might WANT to own some of the rarest one-of-a-kind cards... but since they are NOT for sale... his MONEY doesn't mean jack squat.