I started collecting again when my son was about 2 which was the same time I started taking him outside and underhand tossing him balls albeit a 4-inch plastic ball and a plastic bat about 4+ inches in diameter. Now, at 18 years of age (I still throw BP to him - now with an L-Screen) he's a pretty good ball player but seems to have no interest in the collection. When a package arrives he asks if it's a baseball card and when I say "Yes" he just walks off satisfied that his curiousity is solved. He doesn't even stick around to see me open the package and see what the card looks like. We've had the conversation that the collection will be his when I die and he has stated that he "would never sell them," but some day when I am gone and he is broke and needs cash, I am sure they will be sold. I just don't foresee him as an adult having as much interest in a collection of baseball cards that I do. He just doesn't have that gene that Barry was describing.
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