For me at the root of collecting, it’s about community. As a kid, I really wasn’t pursuing a card as much as I was something fun to share with my brother, and then my close friends. I texted my wife from The Boston Show yesterday saying ‘These are my people!’ So as an adult while the cards have grown in value and my collecting/upgrading is a family pursuit, it’s still the same for me: building friendships and relationships around a shared purpose, and in a way, that’s what baseball has always done-bring people together.
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