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2019 August -

What will happen to the hobby of sports card collecting when the baby boomers pass on? Will Gen-Xers inherit their father's expensive baseball card collection and then sell them? Will Generation Y care about a card that doesn't have a jersey swatch in it? Is the reason there is no more gum in packs of cards due to Millennials' parents demanding all that sugar be removed? Sports card collecting is entering a new phase. After the crash of the baseball card market in the mid 1990s, where parents were investing in cards on spec hoping to put their children through...

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2019 August -

I always find it interesting to see how athletes touch lives beyond the playing field. RetroCards features former pro football player Ernie Barnes in this entry. Though the average sports fan may not know him for his athletic contribution, they may have seen his work in television shows, in films, or on album covers. Ernie Barnes played seven years of professional football, mainly in the old AFL, but became more known as a serious artist, dipicting African-American life in many of his paintings. The most famous of his paintings was called “Sugar Shack,” which featured prominently the 70s sitcom Good Times as well as...

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