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

[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.