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Posted By: peter chao

Actually, that makes a lot of sense. In the Bay Area, there's an upscale city of Albany, on one street in Albany there's a very trendy street with a number of antique stores.

In one of the antique stores the owner sold baseball cards as well as antique furniture, clocks, etal. Each time I went into the store there became fewer and fewer other antiques and more and more baseball cards.

The owner simply went with the money. Baseball cards took less space and were selling while the antique furniture took up space and wasn't selling.

Possibly that's the way baseball card shows developed. It could have been flea markets or whatever where many different types of items sold. But because baseball cards were popular, people started having shows that were focused mostly on cards.

Peter