[oh8eleven]

And millions of baby-boomers are hearing baseball cards in their bicycle spokes thinking - oh crap.

[EvilCapitalist]

And don’t forget parents who threw away their baseball card collections.

[fhayek]

Mantle sure makes more sense than Mike Trout.

[Bell Bouy II]

Yup and this too,
My bro had one or more of these and no telling what others? After we all went in the Mil (late 60’s) and the folks sold the old homestead(we were all service dear ole maw cleaned out the cellar and tossed all the BB cards in the trash.

[Jolla]

Mick said he threw away two boxes, about 400 one day.

[ArcadeQuarters]

What’s the appeal of an old baseball card other than selling it to the next guy?

[circlecity]

This is the exception. For the most part the sports memorabilia market crashed around 2008 with the beginning of the Obama depression.

[Karliner]

I used to shove the stupid rookie cards in my spokes, like Nolan Ryan, Pete Rose...stupid Rookie cards...

[lee martell]

What a waste of money. But then, it’s their money.

[Hot Tabasco]

I grew up in a small town in northern Michigan back in the 50's and 60's. There was a relative who owned a newspaper and magazine store where I always purchased my 10 cent comics. Every new super hero comic that came out in those days, I bought them and saved them until I lost interest in comics in the mid 60's then finally threw them away......The same with baseball cards.

If I only knew then.....

[duckman]

“And millions of baby-boomers are hearing baseball cards in their bicycle spokes thinking - oh crap.”

Same thing crossed my mind. Back in the 50’s in NYC and in my pre-teens, we used to ‘Flip’ or ‘Scale’ cards against a wall. Those of you from the Bronx probably know what I mean. I had literally thousands of cards I won. Mom gave them away when I got married.

[max americana]

One of the mistakes I made was I gave a Mike Piazza rookie card many years ago to my cousin back in the early 90’s. If you told me back then that he would in the Hall of Fame, I would have asked where you bought your weed..

[alternatives?]

If you print enough money, this is the result.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Peak stupid.

[zeebee]

This author would have flunked my English composition class:
“ The sky-high value of the Mantle card is due in part to the fact that in addition to being the Yankee legend’s rookie card...”

[EQAndyBuzz]

I have his rookie card. Fair condition. Where was the item sold?

[Migraine]

Hey, just think—if we’d print up 350 million of those, we could grubstake everyone in the country to a comfortable life! /sarc

[sit-rep]

lmao... I know I went thru MANY!!...

[Preachin']

I think a part of what boosts the vale is that 1952 was TOPPS first year in the business.

I used to work with a guy that told me in 2008 that he had every complete set of TOPPS cards ever created. He was a teenager in 1952 and bought these sets brand new and just kept going.

I’ve not seen him in years, but I hope he’s alive still and got really rich off of this.