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The Hobby is not dead.. not even close.
There are still millions of sports card collectors.. check out ebay. One of the most popular categories is Sports Cards..
The hobby has evolved in the past 10 years and now there are only a couple companies mass producing cards (Topps and Panini).
I had baseball cards as a kid, when the Braves were still in Milwaukee! I wish I had kept them but I started collecting post cards instead (probably a girl thing)! I remember having Spahn, Buhl and Burdette! I watched baseball and football with my dad. He had 3 girls, I was the youngest so I watched sports with him. He loved watching pitchers and I remember him saying, watch Drysdale, he'll pitch inside, outside, down the middle. Good memories but alas no more baseball cards!
No it was better when there were only Topps, Fleer and Philadelphia. That and when a pack was 5 cents and you got gum.
I don't remember Philadelphia. Only Topps, Fleer, and Donruss and late in my trading days, Upper Deck. In our area you couldn't give away Fleer cards and though I saw some Donruss cards, I don't remember seeing them sold. Packs were a dime with the holy grail big packs sold for a quarter. When I could score a big pack I was occupied for a week.
Topps was tops. As a baseball nuts kid I collected from 1962 through 1969. Still have 5 Mickey Mantles. I would have 6, but traded one to my cousin for a Harmon Killebrew. Great trade for both of us (our individual heros), but financially I took that one in the shorts.
I used to get a kick going through the Beckitt book and looking at the pie in the sky values of my collection. All in fun though, I'll never sell them. As a farm boy with no brothers, it occupied a lot of my free time when not stuck doing farm work. All good memories.
I don't remember Philadelphia. Only Topps, Fleer, and Donruss and late in my trading days, Upper Deck. In our area you couldn't give away Fleer cards and though I saw some Donruss cards, I don't remember seeing them sold. Packs were a dime with the holy grail big packs sold for a quarter. When I could score a big pack I was occupied for a week.
Topps was tops. As a baseball nuts kid I collected from 1962 through 1969. Still have 5 Mickey Mantles. I would have 6, but traded one to my cousin for a Harmon Killebrew. Great trade for both of us (our individual heros), but financially I took that one in the shorts.
I used to get a kick going through the Beckitt book and looking at the pie in the sky values of my collection. All in fun though, I'll never sell them. As a farm boy with no brothers, it occupied a lot of my free time when not stuck doing farm work. All good memories.
Those Mantles have good value, especially if they are in good condition. Mantle is still the most sought after post war player.
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I wish I had kept them but I started collecting post cards instead (probably a girl thing)! 
I remember having Spahn, Buhl and Burdette! I watched baseball and football with my dad. He had 3 girls, I was the youngest so I watched sports with him. He loved watching pitchers and I remember him saying, watch Drysdale, he'll pitch inside, outside, down the middle. Good memories but alas no more baseball cards!
