will anyone be able to purchase a koufax 7 @ $1750....

[packs]

Again I could be totally wrong, but I would think that's the exception and not the norm. If I asked 100 people between 10 and 20 if they bought a pack of baseball cards recently I'd think I'd get 99 no's. I have a hard time believing that a kid who never collected cards growing up would suddenly decide to collect them later in life.

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by packs

Again I could be totally wrong, but I would think that's the exception and not the norm. If I asked 100 people between 10 and 20 if they bought a pack of baseball cards recently I'd think I'd get 99 no's. I have a hard time believing that a kid who never collected cards growing up would suddenly decide to collect them later in life.

If I am reading you correctly, then I think it would be naïve to assume that only 1 in 100 who did buy a card then in that age group are the only ones who are driving up the prices now. I saw this in the Eighties (before tpg) when the 52T Mantles started to get media attention. Card shops that I frequented that would usually only have a few customers in it now had lines for any Mantle cards.

[packs]

No, what I'm saying is the people I believe are driving the prices up are boomers. And they collect now because they collected as kids. I'm saying that kids today who are between 10 and 20 aren't buying cards at all, even as children. So when boomers and their collections exit the picture, what makes you think people who are kids today will take their place in collecting when they aren't collecting as children.

[Stonepony]

Originally Posted by packs

Again I could be totally wrong, but I would think that's the exception and not the norm. If I asked 100 people between 10 and 20 if they bought a pack of baseball cards recently I'd think I'd get 99 no's. I have a hard time believing that a kid who never collected cards growing up would suddenly decide to collect them later in life.

I can think of at least a dozen things my father, and myself began collecting in our 30s and 40s that we had no interest in or contact with as youths.

[packs]

Originally Posted by Stonepony

I can think of at least a dozen things my father, and myself began collecting in our 30s and 40s that we had no interest in or contact with as youths.

Are they things associated with childhood, like baseball cards are? Or are you talking about cars and things like that?

[Stonepony]

Originally Posted by packs

Are they things associated with childhood, like baseball cards are? Or are you talking about cars and things like that?

A mix of both but I assure you my parents didn't play with 19th century cut glass, toothpick holders, clocks, duck decoys, art, stamps, coins etc etc as children. Nor did their parents collect it. I'm not saying you're wrong. I just don't see a concrete correlation

[packs]

Right but those things aren't related to childhood. I would make the argument that most adults return to collecting to recapture some part of their youth, whether its conscious or not. Those things are hobbies that are unrelated in my opinion to any type of nostalgia from your past.

[Stonepony]

[QUOTE=packs;1551882]Right but those things aren't related to childhood. I would make the argument that most adults return to collecting to recapture some part of their youth, whether its conscious or not. Those things are hobbies that are unrelated in my opinion to any type of reclamation.[/QUOTE

Oh, so that's the reason I have 12 different colored 1971 Hot Wheels Redline Pythons!!!

[glynparson]

Many do buy cards as kids they are just more often Magic or Yugi Oh or another form of game card. That said 4 different boys in my 30 home neighborhood collect football cards. I now because my daughter has traded with them.

[Leon]

[QUOTE=Stonepony;1551884]

Originally Posted by packs

Right but those things aren't related to childhood. I would make the argument that most adults return to collecting to recapture some part of their youth, whether its conscious or not. Those things are hobbies that are unrelated in my opinion to any type of reclamation.[/QUOTE

Oh, so that's the reason I have 12 different colored 1971 Hot Wheels Redline Pythons!!!

I have to admit handling the 1968-1972 Topps again (rookies and such...), after doing it in childhood, does bring back a lot of good memories. Those were the days.
So that part is true, 40-45 yrs from now kids will probablyt be remembering snapchat and other online stuff....

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