Are Baseball Cards going to disappear

[mark evans]

I can't imagine cards disappearing in my lifetime. Then again, I'm 61.
But more to the point, I think there will always be folks who collect things, regardless of "cloud" developments. So, so long as there is baseball, I suspect there will be baseball cards.

[martyogelvie]

My cards disappear all the time. At least until I remember where I put them!

[Al C.risafulli]

I coach a team of fifteen 10 and 11-year-old boys. I believe 13 of them collect baseball cards.

We are the Cardinals. One of the things I do as part of coaching them is give them the name of a player from Cardinals history, then ask them to go home, research that player, and come back in and tell the rest of the team about him. Or I'll be hitting them ground balls, and I'll say "Which Cardinals player was nicknamed the 'Fordham Flash'?" and wait for someone to give the correct answer.

Anyway, when I do this with the kids, about half of them come in with a baseball card of that player, which was pulled out of some pack of shiny cards.

At our last practice, one kid brought his entire collection for me to look at.

So no, I don't think they're going to disappear. Kids still collect, they just collect differently than we did.

-Al

[scmavl]

I do not think they'll disappear. Nor do I think paper books will ever totally disappear. My wife is a writer and the people who bought paper copies of her book FAR outnumber the amount of Kindle/Nook purchases. And she was even in the Top 5 of Kindle sales in her genre (Contemporary Fiction).

[Big Six]

Originally Posted by scmavl

I do not think they'll disappear. Nor do I think paper books will ever totally disappear. My wife is a writer and the people who bought paper copies of her book FAR outnumber the amount of Kindle/Nook purchases. And she was even in the Top 5 of Kindle sales in her genre (Contemporary Fiction).

What is her name?

[Leon]

My wife reads a ton of books. She bought two hardbacks a few days ago (and owns a Kindle) as she said she needed to "hold" them....I guess book readers need their fix just like we need our cards .

[Brendan]

As far as technology goes, there's nothing like the real thing. The new generation understands that.

So no, books won't disappear and nor will baseball cards. (in the seeable future)