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Originally Posted by Schlesinj
Isn’t that a similar argument as none of us witnessing Babe Ruth or someone like me never seeing Mickey Mantle hit a baseball live, but I would much rather own their card vs Aaron Judge.
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Maybe. Even though we never saw Ruth we collected cards of what was current at the time, 50s to 70s, at some point we ended up jumping down the pre-war rabbit hole of the past and discovered the old timers. But we had a connection because we collected cards as a kid.
If there are no hard stock tickets for a kid to collect today I think you lose a generation to ticket collecting because there was no modern equivalent hook to set regarding tickets. Now that's not saying the younger generation can't find their way to ticket collecting but it's not a straight line anymore.
I'm not a photo guy either but is there a modern equivalent to a type 1 photo in the modern digital age? The same dynamic might play out there too.