CBS Baseball card collecting story "It's gonna die... "

[GoldenAge50s]

Yeah, I saw it. Showed a little ole' show hall in Smalltown PA w/ only a few middle age men in attendance & bemoaning the loss of the kids & collectors in general to the hobby.

The point was all "doom & gloom" but it's pretty hard to paint an accurate picture of the state of the Hobby in a 5 minute piece.

[HRBAKER]

CBS could probably run a similar segment lamenting the decline of their own network newscast. Nothing stays the same forever.

[CharleyBrown]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

CBS could probably run a similar segment lamenting the decline of their own network newscast. Nothing stays the same forever.

I actually mentioned the same thing on the PSA boards...

There is some irony behind the idea of a network newscast/cable TV talking about the collapse of another industry.

I do believe that distribution methods need to be re-evaluated for the newer cards. At this point, I feel as though Topps is figuring that the younger generations are a lost cause when that is simply not the case.

I teach HS, and many of the boys in my 9th and 10th grade classes did at one point collect cards, and they love baseball.