[travrosty]

I knew it was going to be the same old type of story once i saw them call a 52 topps mickey mantle, his 'rookie' card, and then go to the standard mr. mint interview. not that mr. mint wouldn't have anything insightful to say, but it just shows they kind of didn't dig very deep into this story.

in the late 80's and early 90's football cards started it off with the proliferation of many, many new companies coming into the market, leaf, press pass, skybox, playoff, sage, pinnacle, prestige, ,a ction packed, pro set, superior pix, gameday, bowman, star pics, classic, pacific, wild card, collector's edge, upper deck, and the branches of the original companies like topps stadium club and Topps Chrome, as well, as fleer ultra, score, donruss each adding special subsets, they oversaturated by a mile with nearly 20 different companies making football cards, and companies like pro set really cranked up the presses and made untold millions upon millions of these cards.

When an new athlete has 18 different rookie cards, then who cares anymore? And other artificially created rare insert cards like silver, gold, platinum, refractors, autographed would be worth more than his rookie anyway. so people got frustrated. Wild card made cards with a 10 stripe, a 100 stripe, a 1000 stripe, and people were suppose to believe that a Brett Favre 1000 stripe is suppose to be worth 1000 times his regular card because it has a stripe on it and suppose to be much rarer? give me a break here,

Many rookie cards of HOF superstars like barry sanders are near worthless, like his 1989 pro set card. There are trillions of them out there.

baseball and other sports did similar things. There no collectible value to hardly anything 1990's and newer, that's the last 20+ years. They ruined it, and now it's just busting packs to find an autograph or game worn patch card.