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Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Kids are always going to get into the current stuff; we all did. I was abuzz every year with the latest offerings from Topps, and crazy to get that rookie (I recall 1976's Willie Randolph and Ron Guidry RCs with great fondness today as the young stalwarts of the first Yankees team of my childhood to win a pennant). Man, how I chased those cards. A percentage of those kids trading cards will study history and become intrigued with the past, like all of us did; no one is born with a desire to buy a Harry Hooper card. They always do, and the 'boring' cards from 100-150 years ago will come to life for them and that itch will start. First it is the Mt. Rushmore players: Ruth, Cobb, Gehrig, Robinson, etc. Then, it is the next tier down, and so on, until they are chasing regional Claude Osteen cards for their Dodgers franchise collections. It is the journey of a lifetime of collecting.

Well said.