When to know the hobby is DIEing!

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Re the "hobby is dying" part: ask yourselves this__ if prices started to rapidly fall on some of the holy grails, like the T206 Wagner, M101 and 1914 Baltimore News Ruth rookies, high-grade '52 Topps Mantles, etc, how many of us would line up to catch them if and when they got within our price range? Virtually all of us, I would think, which is the answer to the question itself: demand for the real classics, the material collectors thrive on, is like a large pyramid, with ledges. If the top or even several layers slough off, there's too much below it to keep it all from going, and the net result is that none of it would fall very far. We're here to stay now, boy, just as long as baseball and its history is popular. Anyone who thinks the hobby is dying should have been at the National this past July--BIG, BIG AGAIN, JUST LIKE IT WAS IN '92 in Atlanta (compared to small, like Cleveland, in 2009)! TONS OF YOUTHFUL ENERGY, BURSTING AT THE SEAMS WITH BARELY CONTAINED INTEREST IN PURSUING AND OBTAINING WHAT IT WANTED!

Plus, Leon hosted a helluva Net54 dinner on Friday. I highly recommend it for all for next year!

We're all in this together, like family. No need for name-calling between brothers who simply sometimes disagree.

May we all find joy in our collecting endeavors,

Larry