What's killing baseball cards?

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I don't think what he does as a 7 year old earmarks a future baseball fan as a non-collector. Let's be really honest here: the true motivation behind being an adult sports fan and collector is getting away from the wife and kids. The vast majority of us are fat middle aged married guys with high disposable incomes who got into cards as an offshoot of rekindled interest in sports as married adults. That's the way it always is because we're too old or crippled to play sports or drink, can't stand golf, and can't get away with watching television all weekend in our underwear without being besieged with endless crap about home improvements, playing board games, going with her to hold the purse while she shops out the local Macy's, etc. Cards are always going to be there because, like the Three Stooges, women (vast majority, ok) simply do not understand the attraction, just as we could not give less of a damn whether the bed is made. As Larry David said, a single man in communist China is freer than a married man in the USA because although the commie can't leave the country, the married guy can't get out of the house on a Sunday afternoon. Imagine how bad it would be without sports and cards.

J/K, I love ya, honey, if you are reading this...