Our future...from the mind of a seven year old...

[zljones]

I have been talking about cards with my fiancee's 13 year old son and he said kids these days have no interest at all when I try to show him some he says "cool" but in a very non-enthusiastic way, and this kid loves sports and plays baseball even collected some cards years ago, but these kids just do not care, it is great your 7 year old has at least some interest, I guess starting them off young is the way to go, for my future stepson it's possibly too late.

[Cardboard Junkie]

I would introduce him to movies and clips and documentaries like Burn's baseball and show him cards of the players as they are mentioned . Use cool names like "The Georgia Peach" and terms like "Merkle's Boner" "Sultan of swat" watch "sandlot with him" and field of dreams and try very very hard to take him to ballgames..I remember in the fifties meeting Al Kaline I was in awe of my hero! Thats the kind of stuff it takes....oh and let him have an active say in what you buy and why. Just My Opinion. dave

[Texxxx]

He is young and will have a tendency to admire the people that he can watch on TV and see in person. That is normal. As his grows up he will expand his horizon to other people as his learns what they did as ballplayers. He may or may not learn to love the ones you do. That is all right. We all have different taste and it has changed for us through the years. For now I would say to teach him to take care of the cards he has because they may be worth something when he gets older.