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Do kids today still collect baseball cards?

• Id' been thinking about selling off my childhood baseball (and basketball and football) card collection for a while. But recently found out my wife is pregnant. I was wondering if kids today still collect baseball cards and it would be something that my son would one day get a big kick out of and should hold on to. I hadn't looked at my childhood collection in nearly twenty years, and just kept dragging that (big) old box around with me cause it seemed like a waste to throw them away. So I decided that it was time I just sell them. I'd reached the point of exploring what I might be able to get for them. Luckily, childhood me was very meticulous and put all the best players in special cases and notebooks so it was pretty easy find some collector's price guides and see what my collection might be "worth." Of course these cards are only "worth" what anyone is willing to pay for them. So I totaled the alleged collector's guide value of what I should be able to sell my "superstar" cards for and saw that it was a nice chunk of change. But it's not so much as to be"life-changing" money or anything, and I have a good job so, while like most people we would love a few extra dollars, we're not in dire need of extra cash or anything. When I found out my wife was pregnant it got me thinking of when I was a boy I always envied a friend of mine who had his dad's old collection and cards from years long past. I wondered if my boy might one day get more value out of my childhood treasures than I could get off of Ebay or something now. Since we're still relative newly weds without children, most of our friends I guess naturally are singles or couples without children too, so I haven't been able to figure out if baseball card collecting is a timeless childhood passion or some fad of my youth. If I were to sell them, as alluded to, I probably don't know enough to find the right buyer or anything and make "huge" money just a nice solid extra chunk. I have some allegedly "valuable" cards (relatively) but not so much that it would be worth my time than to do anything more than put them on ebay, or see what a card collector vendor would give me for the whole lot. If kids today (and thus presumably of all generations) still stop at the 7-11 on the way home from school and buy a pack of baseball cards and trade them with friends as I did, I'm thinking I'd be better off keeping them for my boy to enjoy one day. But if they don't I figure no point in still hanging on to these cards that I haven't looked at in years. Anybody's kid's still like trading cards?

• Answer:

  you should definitly keep them. kids do still enjoy the hobby and even if he doesnt, there is probably some value. if you think he will like sports, make sure you get him interested early.