What Was The Hobby Like Back In The Day?

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One thing rarely talked about (and not mentioned here either) in the history of the hobby was when football, basketball, and hockey cards became relevant.

I was 14 when I went to my first show in 1988. By then, baseball card prices were starting to flourish (but the other major sports were still practically worthless). I remember seeing Jordan and Montana rookies for about 4 bucks each at that show. They stayed in the displays, cause no one cared yet.

In the next year, that started to change. Then once the '90s began and the junk wax boom was in full force, those cards became permanently just as marketable as baseball cards.

Anyone who put away a ton of quality basketball, football, and hockey material in the late 80s quickly found gold at the end of a rainbow