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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards
I never understood that argument about vintage. How many of us saw Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, King Kelly? Hell I never saw Mantle and I'm in my 50's.
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I think the thinking is that pre-war was only a generation before the boomers, so when the boomers all returned to cards from the 50s as they got older, it wasn't much a leap for them to get curious about cards from the 30s, 40s, etc. especially when their fathers or grandfathers probably did see them play and had stories from life to share.
But for today's younger collectors, the heyday of their hobby memories are more in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s eras, which leave quite a distance between their collective memory and pre-war.
I have a son. As he gets older he'll hear stories about Don Mattingly and the 1996 Yankees. I won't have any stories about Mickey Mantle either, except maybe for seeing him at card shows in the early 90s when I was really young.