This is my third go-round in the hobby over roughly 50 years. Which of course tells me sports cards are in a bubble. I just use current values to sell nice 70s cards and put that into a handful of older grail cards, so boom/bubble prices don't hurt me and are at best a sideways trade. I never intended to keep everything anyway. If cards didn't "go up," it would be very hard to justify any serious collecting.
Every card gets sold sooner or later, whether you are alive to see it or not. And I don't mind leaving room for the next guy to make money, either. Plenty to collect at all levels. I still enjoy messing with junk-era cards where there is no money.
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