Hobby history: 1977 Chicago Tribune article on card collecting

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08-15-2017, 12:22 PM

Leon

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Stonepony

"IT S JUST a method to make a profit," says Rich Egan, a Mundelein chemist with a collection of 20,000 cards. "They buy cards and hang onto them, artificially inflate the prices, and then dump them."

Good thing that doesn't happen anymore

LOL....there is some adage about history repeating itself.

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