What Happened to Card Collecting That I Knew?

[ALR-bishop]

This Topps issue had a baseball subset within a set of 50 + comics involving all sports. I have a set and some unopened "packs", where the comic is wrapped around the gum. I know from opening the packs that the gum is still green and gooey....very chewable.

[Leon]

I moved this from the post war section to the main section because, well, I wanted to ....that and I think almost all of us, even though we might collect pre-war now, collected new cards when we were younger. These are some of the most interesting threads to me...and the front page does get more views. I hope the original poster doesn't mind this being moved.

And to be on topic... I collected as a kid in the late 60's and very early 70's. I remember all that gum and the smell of it like it was yesterday. Personally, I think the over saturation of the 80's and 90's killed it (and it's sort of obvious too). Happy collecting.