[iggyman]

I am a collector of baseball cards first and foremost, that is part of who I am. My disposable income limits me to what I can or cannot collect. Which is why I don't collect Old Judges (but if they should ever start dropping in prices........I will buy them by the bushel or at least by the pound). Human beings will always have a natural tendency to collect things. That is part of who we are and as a consequence; whales will always exist, because some human beings end-up with more disposable income then they know what to do with. I don't buy into this "end of the world" scenario for baseball cards. The game of baseball is thriving like never before in its history. Throw in the fact that old baseball cards have a unique niche in our society as well as the fact that Japan is baseball crazy (the bets on card prices would be "off" (as in, "all bets are off"), if that society ever started collecting old baseball cards in earnest.....hey, all it would take is some charismatic individual in an info-commercial). As the Exhibitman stated...."It is just silly to think that the hobby will crater (absent of course a total cratering of everything else)....". With all that said, the only thing I know for sure is that not even the "Amazing Krestin" can predict the future.

Lovely Day...