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

[carrigansghost]

Nice mullet Lee. I wondered if any board members were in the story. Bringing my 14 year old to the Boston show this weekend again. What I find with the younger crowd is they reach a huge excitement level to open stuff from the mail, but then need the next fix extremely soon.

Rawn

[npa589]

Some kids simply don't know cards exist. To that point, all it takes is a fresh realization to spark an interest. I'm a music teacher in an inner cities school, and I have behavior plans for many students involving them receiving baseball/basketball/football cards for good behavior throughout the day. They're absolutely thrilled with them, and trade with their friends. Granted, sometimes they're more thrilled with which one is more "shiny", but still, the joy on their races is real and it's now a huge thing.

I had so many cards that simply took up space and had no value (you know, the 1990s cards of Fat Lever, Ron Karkovice, Rick Wilkins and such), it seemed only natural. I've also shown the kids some T206 cards, and they were fascinated with them (I didn't talk about tobacco...).

[Lee17]

It's kind of pointless to speculate what will happen so far down the line. It's like telling someone in 1952 that their Mickey Mantle card would be worth 1000s and 1000s of dollars. No offense to Al Rosen but he is card dealer not a collector, his business might have slowed down, but many reasons factor into that besides a dying hobby: Internet, other dealers, maybe all the vintage cards have been found already. I am 31 and looking back during the early 90s I remember everyone buying unopened wax boxes and thinking it would pay off their mortgage later in life and then finding out later that everyone America has the same unopened wax box. I think the hobby is doing ok and with the Internet it is just easier to go sell and trade cards. It sucks that live shows aren't around as much, it was nice to see great vintage cards in person, If anything is dead, it's the idea of buying modern cards and then 20 years later they are worth millions.