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Posted By: Chris Counts

Here's another in a recent flurry of articles mourning the death of baseball cards. What has struck me as remarkable about the articles is the absolute cluelessness of the reporters writing about cards (and I'm a newspaper reporter, by the way). It's as if baseball cards don't exist prior to 1980 (with the exception of the T206 Honus Wagner, of course). Yes, there should be a funeral (or a wake!) mourning (celebrating!) the death of shiny new cards, but vintage cards are alive and well and the market for them is healthier than ever. All you have to do is look at the recent prices of vintage cards ...