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Originally Posted by mintacular
For the decline of bb card collecting?
1) Price Guides (Namely Beckett) for assigning monetary value to cards
2) Grading Companies for overemphasizing condition
3) MLB for turning baseball's pastimes into 2 leagues of haves and have-nots
4) Technology (ex: video games) for making card collecting obsolete and/or less relevant
5) Various card companies for flooding the market during the 80s-modern era
6) Other
In my opinion, price guides, turning the hobby into a business. Your thoughts?
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4) and 6), 6) being the cratering of the economy