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Jason Lthere will always be a place for the newer stuff, I hope that continues to be true, and here's why:
Coming out of the White Plains show this past fall, my 4 year old son and I were greeted by another guy who was leaving the building. He came up and asked me if my son would like some more cards. Turns out this guy had to buy the 1988 Donruss factory set because it was the only way to get some variation card of a player he collects...so he gave my boy the entire 1988 Donruss set, less those 2 cards. Now, you and I know that that is worth about as much as the paper I'm writing this post on, but to a 4 year old, that was a HUGE box of cards, and he loved it!!
At that show I bought him a box of 2006 Topps, which we went home and opened together - he is hooked! Of course, there must be something about that 1988 Donruss set, because while he loves having it on his closet shelf, he still hasn't gone back to look at those.
Anyway, my point is the new stuff serves an important purpose: raising the interest level in baseball, and raising the generation of collectors that we need to buy our stuff later!