Gone from the Blue-Collar Guy

[Exhibitman]

Our God-given right as collectors (and Americans) is to complain about everything. It is definitely a case of non-problem problems, whining about not being able to buy baseball cards, but it is what it is. I'd like to own a Ruth RC, a 1925 Exhibit Gehrig, etc., but I know they are now out of my reach permanently. Really it is that many of us older (fart) collectors are just pissed at ourselves for thinking we'd have all the time in the world to add many cards to our collections that we now are completely unable to afford, so we bitch about the investors and anyone who can afford it. Nothing new there: I remember 20-30 years ago when card shows were everywhere and the whole PSA thing was just getting into gear, talking to people at shows derisively describing the dealers who were into that stuff as the "Rolex crew" because they all seemed to wear gaudy Rolexes and flash cash as obnoxiously as a drunk in a Las Vegas casino. We'd all just skip the Rolex tables and go for the back of the show. I mean, who is gonna pay a premium for a common Goudey Ruth just because it is in some clunky case? Guess we missed the boat on that one...