How to start a child on card collecting

[teetwoohsix]

Everyone has valid points,but from my own experiance,Brian and Leon nailed it.
My father was a huge baseball and football fan in the '70s,and made it a point to make me learn how to throw and catch a baseball/football,taught me how to hit a ball,and then threw me on a little league team(we were the Dodgers).
At first,it was hard to understand the game,since all I had done was "play catch" with dad.
Then,as I learned the game and felt the feeling of "competition",going through the losses and wins,I fell in love with it.
From there,I wanted to see ANY baseball game on TV that I could.
From there,I started to want to collect baseball cards.......................
That,in a nutshell,is how it happened for me.
I doubt that without "getting into the game",I would not have found collecting cards to be as enjoyable-only my opinion..........