Paul
I think it is intrinsic..a love for history and a penchant for collecting.
Although many of us here collected cards as kids, many of us are collecting cards of players that they never knew, never saw play, and have only read about. Yes, we have some great collecting legends that post or lurk on these boards, but there's even few of them that remember collecting in the 1950s.
In other words, everyone on this board is collecting cards of players that died long before they collected. So long as your seven-year old sign likes collecting Chase Utley and the Phillies now, why wouldn't one expect he might become more interested in the history later?
Speaking from similar experience, I grew up watching Schmidt, Carlton, Rose and the Phillies. But most of my collecting budget these days goes to pre-war Phillies.
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