just be glad you're not into coin collecting or metal detecting
Two of my other hobbies, coin collecting and metal detecting, are constantly getting assaulted by the historians and archeologists claiming that private collectors do extreme damage to their ability to research things through coins and relics. Never mind that there is no possible way all the coins and relics can be reclaimed from the earth by archeologists and other scientists before they literally crumble into nothingness - private collectors are many times the only means to preserve these artifacts and pass on the knowledge they have gained from their study.
We (the baseball card hobbyists) should just be glad that baseball cards haven't garnered the attention of those same type of militant "scientists". Some day we may get that kind of attention and they will start introducing legislation, from the local level up, to ban private collectors from searching for and possessing "historically significant" baseball cards.
Just imagine!
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