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Posted By: barrysloate

Thanks Jason- I did have a nice vacation other than catching lyme disease, and I am currently back in Brooklyn. I think the debate over what constitutes a baseball card boils down to a simple premise- baseball cards are worth more than other forms of memorabilia. If you call a Peck & Snyder an advertising trade card, which it always was until just recently, it is worth x. But if you can call it a baseball card, its value magically triples. Now just about everything that's square, made of paper, isn't too large and fits in a slab is called a baseball card. There's nothing wrong with definitions changing and evolving, but collectors should understand what is behind it.