[xdrx]

This is obviously not a pre-80s topic, but I'm curious how this community views the newer cards with game used artifacts embedded in them?

I have not looked at new cards since sometime in the 90s, so I am very ignorant about these items, but at first glance I just scoffed at the game used stuff. I'm imagining semi-star players changing their shirts every inning to create a boatload of this stuff. Not interested.

But then I see that they have cards from "old timers". My first reaction, after wondering if they can really validate this stuff, is being appalled that they scrapped a Babe Ruth jersey to make these goofy cards. But then I see a Clemente card with a piece of game-worn jersey. Clemente was one of the few athletes I ever idolized, and the only one whom I still feel strongly about today. The idea of a card with a piece of his actual jersey is appealing to me. And at $35 or so it's doesn't seem like a completely foolish way to spend my money.

Am I a hypocrite for thinking that way? Sure seems so. I want to buy one of the Clemente cards, but I just feel like it is wrong. Very strange. It's only a baseball card. It really doesn't matter. Someone help me out with some psychoanalysis here please!