HBO's Real Sports Will Cover Baseball Card Boom

[Mountaineer1999]

Originally Posted by 68Hawk

I just can't help my disbelief for all the posters on here living in the sunk hole existence of a 'ruined' hobby. All the corrections you seek, the dirty tricks that have distorted you're favorite pastime, the nefarious monsters inside your nightmares.

Don't you people realize you are a speck on the side of a mountain sized group that makes up the collector community? Most couldn't give a fig for your lamentations and will drive the hobby forward in popularity and success that cements its place in our past times. Sounds like many of you would rather burn it down than have it be something you'd prefer it wasn't.

The cards were pennies and then dollars and then tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars, until they became thousands of dollars and now millions of dollars.
140 years of inevitable increasing desirability and cost and pleasure to huge numbers of people across the world, corrections here and there but telling the same greater story over time....

People want the cards, are willing to pay to own them, and as competition to own them has grown from children to odd non mainstream basement dwelling hobbyists to widespread sports loving populace, the price has gone ever upwards.
Not for dreck. Not for everything. Not for the purpose of owning full sets.
But for enjoying a card or cards of your favorite heroes.
Much as it was for the kids just after the turn of the 20th century.

If you're smart, you'll continue to hold the valuable and important cards you collected at relatively small entry prices, and perhaps sell them in your retirement at wonderfully high numbers. Or pass them along to your fortunate descendants.

What a bunch of whiny old geezers (I'm 52) you all come across as.
You should get out of the hobby to minimize your angst, the railing is such a waste when no one is making you collect.

No one complained or if they did it was minimal. Maybe people miss what it used to be and say so.. is that ok? Kids have been entirely pushed out of baseball card collecting, that is unless you're a rich suburban kid that daddy gives you 5k to take a chance on an NBA rookie card.