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Max WederJulie makes an excellent point about young collectors. I have often referred to this as the Rule of 12--our collecting interests as adults will be largely driven by what we collected when we were 12 years old.
This can explain the major market interest in Mickey Mantle by those collectors who are in their prime spending period. It may also explain my lack of interest in Mickey Mantle, as he had already retired by the time I hit 12. However, somehow I must have been the exception to the rule, as I harbour no interest in collecting the early 1970's--I blame my lack of interest resulting from me checking out from the library at that time Only the Ball Was White and Harold Seymour's first volume on the history of baseball, as well as spending many hours with Macmillan's The Baseball Encyclopedia, with its great references to past seasons and statistical leaders and its connection to baseball's past. Or maybe I just had an aversion to polyester.
Max