Baseball Cards

Last night my housemates and I got into a talk about baseball cards. I’ve noticed that the popularity of collecting sports cards has really declined since we were kids. We were all into collecting cards at one point. I think it was around 1989 that I starting getting into collecting cards, and I continued trading cards though around middle school (1994). I still have my card collection in some boxes under my bed back home. Most of my cards are Donruss baseball cards because that is the kind that they sold at the Oregon Dairy, the grocery store were my mom took me shopping. But I’ve got some other stuff too. In my later years of collecting I wanted to get rookie cards, because I thought they would be worth the most in the long run, or at least retain value best. Anyway, collecting sports cards doesn’t seem to be popular anymore. It is almost like the market got saturated by all of the different brands and too many cards were made, to the point of making most of them worthless. Nevertheless, my friends and I still had good memories and decided we were going to try to go buy a pack or two. We decided that we wanted basketball cards because currently it is the sport we know the most players in. Our search began with the local mini-mart. No luck. Only hockey cards. We continued to several other mini-marts and some other stores like Zellars, but we found nothing. A couple had more hockey cards, but most didn’t have anything. When we got home, we looked in the phone book and found some card stores in Kitchener that apparently are still around. Before the end of the term we’ll be heading down there. It would really be sweet to get an Amare Stoudemire and/or Yao Ming rookie card. This is the perfect time to buy. The market must surely be hitting a low point and will eventually rise again.