HBO's Real Sports Will Cover Baseball Card Boom

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Originally Posted by Mountaineer1999

No one complained or if they did it was minimal. Maybe people miss what it used to be and say so.. is that ok? Kids have been entirely pushed out of baseball card collecting, that is unless you're a rich suburban kid that daddy gives you 5k to take a chance on an NBA rookie card.

No one has complained??????
Do you read this forum?
EVERY OTHER BLOODY THREAD descends into this caterwauling of the ruination of the hobby, the deviousness of its backyard doctors, the looming price crash that must be inevitable...Good lord man, are you freakin serious?

Secondly, it's absolute rubbish that kids have been priced out of card collecting.
Buying boxes and packs? Sure, way to expensive for most.
But the individual cards themselves have never been more available or nearly as cheap as 99.5% of ALL CARDS LISTED ON EBAY. You even get to pick and choose exactly who you'd like to look at every day instead of simply filling a 9 pocket holder with players you thumb past with little to no interest.
Seriously, if you take out the high end cards (mainly rookies) of the very best players, you can collect by teams or sets for very very VERY little money.

This idea that because you can't afford a Mantle, or Gehrig, or Jeter rook, or current day heartthrob in one of their important issues relegates ALL collecting to nothingness and beyond young collectors is ridiculous.

If you are ok collecting non contemporaneous card issues of HOF players, then even then the options are innumerable to add cards of your favorite players to your collection.

This silliness you parrot needs to stop.
Just please, stop.
It's not true, and doesn't even make any sense.