Who will be the buyer of our vintage cards in 20 years?

[barrysloate]

Jim- in the sense that there will always be someone collecting baseball cards at any point in time, then I would agree that it will be no different twenty years from now. But some aspects of the hobby will likely be very different, and it may be something we can't even predict right now. Perhaps the lower grade pedestrian material will languish and be out of favor, while the rarer and better quality material will become so valuable that it will be out of reach of 99% of collectors. Nobody knows for sure, but things change so quickly these days that I have to anticipate in some way it will be a different landscape.

Perhaps somebody will invent a baseball card so realistic, and so technologically sophisticated, that it will collect us. Maybe robotic baseball cards will enslave the human race and keep them hermetically sealed in lucite and mylar. You never know.