Has the Junk card era ended? If so, when?

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

I'm not sure where you get the idea that the term junk wax isn't used to refer to the wax, but it always has. It's literally in the name.

Because it's not really in the name. The term is used for cards that came out long after card companies stopped using wax wrappers. The derivation of the term is therefore far from clear.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Remember, the term junk wax wasn't used during the era.

Precisely! And I've always thought that all the 1990's gimmicks - e.g. chase cards, parallel sets, autographed cards, jersey cards, manufactured scarcities - were what ended up spawning the term "junk". Gimmicky=junky.

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

Meh, I love baseball cards and I love baseball.

And I just collect Barry Larkin.

Now that I find really tough to understand. If you love both baseball and baseball cards, how can you limit yourself to just a single player? Surely you must like some sets/subsets a lot more than others so how can you not be tempted to get all those cards anyway?