Hobby Update - 2114

[frankbmd]

Items you will see on the forum one hundred years from now.

Large Gem Mint 1982 Donruss Find flooding the market devalues vintage Donruss collectors' NM treasures.

Collector of the Year - wazoo reflects on 100 years of collecting as he approaches his 120th birthday.

Lost in Space - Lunar Shipping Problems plague vintage card collectors on the moon. Flat Rate Boxes are arriving flat they report.

Monster Number Thread becomes first Net54 thread viewed by 3,000,000.


Feel free to add your thoughts and speculation about the distant future of the hobby and other topics you think will be found on the forum in 2114.

[barrysloate]

The world is coming to an end before 2114. I'm working on the exact date.

[T206Collector]

2114 current card pricing index (based on sales from Facebook Auctions):

T206 Unglaub - Graded F3 - $12
T206 Cobb - Graded F2 - $17
T206 Mathewson - Grades G7 - $14,765

[Runscott]

PSA population reports show that the number of Near Mint T206's has quadrupled since 2014.

[Eric72]

The last remaining sealed pack of 1987 Topps Baseball sells for record price!!!

[1880nonsports]

made me smile.... and I'm in a bad mood........

[ethicsprof]

Archaeologists and Climatologists have found, in a polluted area of the United States once called the Gulf Coast, a long forgotten artifact called a baseball card. It is an amazing find largely because very little has been extracted from
the region since the rising waters brought on by the melting of Antarctica's
glaciers ultimately destroyed the area. Using the latest technology, the scientists involved in the project were able to ascertain the letters HOWE on a sliver
of what once was a card. No other information is known at this point, but
several scholars from the University of Michigan, Emory University, and
Duke University have donated their time pro bono to the research, since there
was some interest in this subject of ancient card collecting in their family trees.
These same scholars also noted that there may well be a bit more lettering to
decipher as one short paper is already being disseminated on the possibility of
the letters W and g with what may well be a space between the two letters.

[Paul S]

Terrible Ted's head is reattached and he comes back whole to hit over .400 -- then goes on to serve in two intra-solar-system wars.

Black Sox repent -- unfortunately, Landis is also back in action

Leon is working on all the Mars League type variations