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Re:How Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly over Sports Tra... by TylerE on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @12:28PM (#37135942)
Baseball cards had a use when, ya know, the internet and even things like printed annual references, either didn’t exist or would not have been affordable to the average kid.
Re:How Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly over Sports Tra... by tomjakubowski on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @12:45PM (#37136157)
yeah and, strangely, part of the value in a legendary player's "rookie card" is that it's devoid of all that useful information, because nobody at the time knew yet how good (say) Homer Simpson would be in his career