Money in the Hobby

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No offense but real estate, stamps, coins, and car markets have nothing to do with baseball cards. I am going out on a limb, but I'll venture to say that most people collect baseball cards because they collected them as children. Being born in the 80s and using that as some justification for a future vintage market doesn't hold water. Why? Because in the 90s baseball cards exploded. You could buy a pack of cards anywhere. They were always a part of your life.

I could not tell you the last time I saw a pack of baseball cards sitting out on a counter in my local grocery store. That connection just doesn't exist for anyone being born post-2000, which is who you'll have to rely on to buy your collection down the road.