Who will be the buyer of our vintage cards in 20 years?

[prewarsports]

I used to worry about this a little but I dont anymore. 10 years ago my Brother Rhett and I (at 23 and 22 years old) were by far the youngest guys on the Fullcount board and someone asked the same type question. Here 10 years later we are bit older in our early 30's but there are new younger guys that are getting into it or coming back into it. As long as there is a fascination with Baseball and Sports History, there will be demand for related Antiques. Areas of collectibles will fluctuate with modern trends but I would be more worried about stamps and coins than something that kids always have and always will participate in like sports.

Rhys Yeakley

[barrysloate]

Bob- I remember him telling me about that Hubbell trophy, but he did not have it with him so I didn't get to see it.

[slidekellyslide]

My son (8 years old) has almost no interest in baseball collectibles even though he has played for 4 years, begs me to play catch 9 months out of the year (my arm is still sore), and is surrounded by it all over our house. I used to take him with me to the local card store hoping he would buy some baseball cards, but he always bought a pack or two of Pokemon or Magic cards...I tried to convince him that he could buy an entire box of 1990 Fleer baseball cards for the same price as two packs of Magic cards and he never would go for it. I take him to minor league games and he has no interest in getting autographs of the players. I had been buying him a Topps baseball factory set every year since he was born..this year was the first year I didn't do that. I didn't think he'd notice but he did which made me a smile.

I agree with Jim that there is a collector gene...both my mother and father had it and passed it on to me. My wife doesn't collect anything, and I tried in the past to get her interested in a hobby, but she just doesn't care...I think she passed her genes on to my son, which is good in the looks department so he has that going for him.

[ChiefBenderForever]

I like to watch the tv show 'Hoarders' but some episodes are to depressing to watch, but I think the whole hoard mentality is part of the collecting process. On one of the episodes they said that a 'hoarder' or 'collecter' has something different on the 14th gene.

[bbcard1]

My cards are my wife's problem. She has to decide what to do with them when I die.

[iggyman]

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

Lovely Day...