Baseball Cards... Made For Kids!
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 4/7/2015 1:00:00 AM
Kids can't afford baseball cards.
At as much as $5 per pack, baseball cards are too expensive for most kids. At those prices, it's clear that they are priced for adults who buy them as a potential investment.
While there's nothing wrong with adults investing in collectable cards, it's a bit disturbing that today's kids don't get the same opportunity to enjoy good old fashioned baseball cards as previous generations did. Back then, kids bought tons of them with spare change and they actually touched them with their bare hands.
Like a lot of kids, I kept mine in shoe boxes, with rubber bands around each team. Other kids lined them up from end to end sorted by the number on the back so they could try to complete the set.
I didn't care much for some teams. I just wanted all the New York Mets. Those were the only ones I kept in rubber bands. The ones I didn't care for were perfect for the spokes of my bicycle.
Since we bought lots of packs, we usually had a lot of duplicates. I remember having a big stack of Rollie Fingers one year, but not enough Mets. What 's a kid to do? Trade. Sometimes we just made a simple swap, but most of the time, we played some kind of trading game.
There were a lot of trading games. Some, like tossing against a wall or curb required skills. Others, like heads or tails flipping or simply turning them over one by one to see who had the higher number were just luck. The point is, we tossed them, collected them, and studied them, and above all we weren't afraid to touch them with our bare hands. They were cheap and none of us ever thought of them as an investment.
The trouble is, if card companies don't create low priced versions of their cards, they won't grow up with an interest in buying their more expensive collectable cards.
Eventually the market for high end cards could shrink and it will take another generation before they grow a new market, so creating a low end card not only lets kids buy lots of cards, but it allows them to become future collectors.
Cards like this should be as cheap as bubble gum and, while I'm on my soapbox, they should include gum, so they get that bubble gum smell. That was half the fun.
If they do introduce a lower priced pack, my only fear is that investors will hoard the inventory and buy boatloads of them. My answer... print more... lots more. No limited editions. When stores run out, print more. Just keep printing them so there are so many cards that they are only valuable to kids.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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Posted: 4/7/2015 11:53:21 PM
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Simply Jim, Newbie - Web
Kids today are missing a lot of other things...
Like comic books. Those are too expensive for kids too. The ones who can afford them, keep them in plastic covers to protect their value.
In my day, we read them and they became worn out before we were done with them.
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