HBO's Real Sports Will Cover Baseball Card Boom

[68Hawk]

I just can't help my disbelief for all the posters on here living in the sunk hole existence of a 'ruined' hobby. All the corrections you seek, the dirty tricks that have distorted you're favorite pastime, the nefarious monsters inside your nightmares.

Don't you people realize you are a speck on the side of a mountain sized group that makes up the collector community? Most couldn't give a fig for your lamentations and will drive the hobby forward in popularity and success that cements its place in our past times. Sounds like many of you would rather burn it down than have it be something you'd prefer it wasn't.

The cards were pennies and then dollars and then tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars, until they became thousands of dollars and now millions of dollars.
140 years of inevitable increasing desirability and cost and pleasure to huge numbers of people across the world, corrections here and there but telling the same greater story over time....

People want the cards, are willing to pay to own them, and as competition to own them has grown from children to odd non mainstream basement dwelling hobbyists to widespread sports loving populace, the price has gone ever upwards.
Not for dreck. Not for everything. Not for the purpose of owning full sets.
But for enjoying a card or cards of your favorite heroes.
Much as it was for the kids just after the turn of the 20th century.

If you're smart, you'll continue to hold the valuable and important cards you collected at relatively small entry prices, and perhaps sell them in your retirement at wonderfully high numbers. Or pass them along to your fortunate descendants.

What a bunch of whiny old geezers (I'm 52) you all come across as.
You should get out of the hobby to minimize your angst, the railing is such a waste when no one is making you collect.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by 68Hawk

I just can't help my disbelief for all the posters on here living in the sunk hole existence of a 'ruined' hobby. All the corrections you seek, the dirty tricks that have distorted you're favorite pastime, the nefarious monsters inside your nightmares.

Don't you people realize you are a speck on the side of a mountain sized group that makes up the collector community? Most couldn't give a fig for your lamentations and will drive the hobby forward in popularity and success that cements its place in our past times. Sounds like many of you would rather burn it down than have it be something you'd prefer it wasn't.

The cards were pennies and then dollars and then tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars, until they became thousands of dollars and now millions of dollars.
140 years of inevitable increasing desirability and cost and pleasure to huge numbers of people across the world, corrections here and there but telling the same greater story over time....

People want the cards, are willing to pay to own them, and as competition to own them has grown from children to odd non mainstream basement dwelling hobbyists to widespread sports loving populace, the price has gone ever upwards.
Not for dreck. Not for everything. Not for the purpose of owning full sets.
But for enjoying a card or cards of your favorite heroes.
Much as it was for the kids just after the turn of the 20th century.

If you're smart, you'll continue to hold the valuable and important cards you collected at relatively small entry prices, and perhaps sell them in your retirement at wonderfully high numbers. Or pass them along to your fortunate descendants.

What a bunch of whiny old geezers (I'm 52) you all come across as.
You should get out of the hobby to minimize your angst, the railing is such a waste when no one is making you collect.

I'm half way to 66, but I agree with you.

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by 68hawk

i just can't help my disbelief for all the posters on here living in the sunk hole existence of a 'ruined' hobby. All the corrections you seek, the dirty tricks that have distorted you're favorite pastime, the nefarious monsters inside your nightmares.

Don't you people realize you are a speck on the side of a mountain sized group that makes up the collector community? Most couldn't give a fig for your lamentations and will drive the hobby forward in popularity and success that cements its place in our past times. Sounds like many of you would rather burn it down than have it be something you'd prefer it wasn't.

The cards were pennies and then dollars and then tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars, until they became thousands of dollars and now millions of dollars.
140 years of inevitable increasing desirability and cost and pleasure to huge numbers of people across the world, corrections here and there but telling the same greater story over time....

People want the cards, are willing to pay to own them, and as competition to own them has grown from children to odd non mainstream basement dwelling hobbyists to widespread sports loving populace, the price has gone ever upwards.
Not for dreck. Not for everything. Not for the purpose of owning full sets.
But for enjoying a card or cards of your favorite heroes.
Much as it was for the kids just after the turn of the 20th century.

If you're smart, you'll continue to hold the valuable and important cards you collected at relatively small entry prices, and perhaps sell them in your retirement at wonderfully high numbers. Or pass them along to your fortunate descendants.

What a bunch of whiny old geezers (i'm 52) you all come across as.
You should get out of the hobby to minimize your angst, the railing is such a waste when no one is making you collect.

Amen!

[Mountaineer1999]

Originally Posted by 68Hawk

I just can't help my disbelief for all the posters on here living in the sunk hole existence of a 'ruined' hobby. All the corrections you seek, the dirty tricks that have distorted you're favorite pastime, the nefarious monsters inside your nightmares.

Don't you people realize you are a speck on the side of a mountain sized group that makes up the collector community? Most couldn't give a fig for your lamentations and will drive the hobby forward in popularity and success that cements its place in our past times. Sounds like many of you would rather burn it down than have it be something you'd prefer it wasn't.

The cards were pennies and then dollars and then tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars, until they became thousands of dollars and now millions of dollars.
140 years of inevitable increasing desirability and cost and pleasure to huge numbers of people across the world, corrections here and there but telling the same greater story over time....

People want the cards, are willing to pay to own them, and as competition to own them has grown from children to odd non mainstream basement dwelling hobbyists to widespread sports loving populace, the price has gone ever upwards.
Not for dreck. Not for everything. Not for the purpose of owning full sets.
But for enjoying a card or cards of your favorite heroes.
Much as it was for the kids just after the turn of the 20th century.

If you're smart, you'll continue to hold the valuable and important cards you collected at relatively small entry prices, and perhaps sell them in your retirement at wonderfully high numbers. Or pass them along to your fortunate descendants.

What a bunch of whiny old geezers (I'm 52) you all come across as.
You should get out of the hobby to minimize your angst, the railing is such a waste when no one is making you collect.

No one complained or if they did it was minimal. Maybe people miss what it used to be and say so.. is that ok? Kids have been entirely pushed out of baseball card collecting, that is unless you're a rich suburban kid that daddy gives you 5k to take a chance on an NBA rookie card.

[68Hawk]

Originally Posted by Mountaineer1999

No one complained or if they did it was minimal. Maybe people miss what it used to be and say so.. is that ok? Kids have been entirely pushed out of baseball card collecting, that is unless you're a rich suburban kid that daddy gives you 5k to take a chance on an NBA rookie card.

No one has complained??????
Do you read this forum?
EVERY OTHER BLOODY THREAD descends into this caterwauling of the ruination of the hobby, the deviousness of its backyard doctors, the looming price crash that must be inevitable...Good lord man, are you freakin serious?

Secondly, it's absolute rubbish that kids have been priced out of card collecting.
Buying boxes and packs? Sure, way to expensive for most.
But the individual cards themselves have never been more available or nearly as cheap as 99.5% of ALL CARDS LISTED ON EBAY. You even get to pick and choose exactly who you'd like to look at every day instead of simply filling a 9 pocket holder with players you thumb past with little to no interest.
Seriously, if you take out the high end cards (mainly rookies) of the very best players, you can collect by teams or sets for very very VERY little money.

This idea that because you can't afford a Mantle, or Gehrig, or Jeter rook, or current day heartthrob in one of their important issues relegates ALL collecting to nothingness and beyond young collectors is ridiculous.

If you are ok collecting non contemporaneous card issues of HOF players, then even then the options are innumerable to add cards of your favorite players to your collection.

This silliness you parrot needs to stop.
Just please, stop.
It's not true, and doesn't even make any sense.

[Mountaineer1999]

Originally Posted by 68Hawk

No one has complained??????
Do you read this forum?
EVERY OTHER BLOODY THREAD descends into this caterwauling of the ruination of the hobby, the deviousness of its backyard doctors, the looming price crash that must be inevitable...Good lord man, are you freakin serious?

Secondly, it's absolute rubbish that kids have been priced out of card collecting.
Buying boxes and packs? Sure, way to expensive for most.
But the individual cards themselves have never been more available or nearly as cheap as 99.5% of ALL CARDS LISTED ON EBAY. You even get to pick and choose exactly who you'd like to look at every day instead of simply filling a 9 pocket holder with players you thumb past with little to no interest.
Seriously, if you take out the high end cards (mainly rookies) of the very best players, you can collect by teams or sets for very very VERY little money.

This idea that because you can't afford a Mantle, or Gehrig, or Jeter rook, or current day heartthrob in one of their important issues relegates ALL collecting to nothingness and beyond young collectors is ridiculous.

If you are ok collecting non contemporaneous card issues of HOF players, then even then the options are innumerable to add cards of your favorite players to your collection.

This silliness you parrot needs to stop.
Just please, stop.
It's not true, and doesn't even make any sense.

You're probably right. You obviously care a lot more deeply about this than I do.

God Bless.
Donnie

[icurnmedic]

Originally Posted by 68Hawk

No one has complained??????
Do you read this forum?
EVERY OTHER BLOODY THREAD descends into this caterwauling of the ruination of the hobby, the deviousness of its backyard doctors, the looming price crash that must be inevitable...Good lord man, are you freakin serious?

Secondly, it's absolute rubbish that kids have been priced out of card collecting.
Buying boxes and packs? Sure, way to expensive for most.
But the individual cards themselves have never been more available or nearly as cheap as 99.5% of ALL CARDS LISTED ON EBAY. You even get to pick and choose exactly who you'd like to look at every day instead of simply filling a 9 pocket holder with players you thumb past with little to no interest.
Seriously, if you take out the high end cards (mainly rookies) of the very best players, you can collect by teams or sets for very very VERY little money.

This idea that because you can't afford a Mantle, or Gehrig, or Jeter rook, or current day heartthrob in one of their important issues relegates ALL collecting to nothingness and beyond young collectors is ridiculous.

If you are ok collecting non contemporaneous card issues of HOF players, then even then the options are innumerable to add cards of your favorite players to your collection.

This silliness you parrot needs to stop.
Just please, stop.
It's not true, and doesn't even make any sense.

Both Posts , Very Well Articulated!!

For all the conspiracy theorist- "it looks trimmed, its been shilled , or PWCC prices aren't real" please , by all means , start discounting your for sale cards , so they don't reflect the recent "sales" .
Dang people, its a hobby.