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Published: Wed, 30 Sep 2009
Description: Economy, Internet driving baseball card companies out of business
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" Remember the days of stuffing baseball cards -- the special binders well the kids well. Of today merely may not know about it. Nowadays anybody can get player's stats from the -- weds and the thread about -- that that the threat of a complete baseball card collapse is very real."
" As another baseball season winds to a close. Those who buy and sell baseball cards are feeling a different kind of heat people are collecting works. Especially with the economy. You can't -- a peaceful carton. The trading card industry is in a slump with sales dropping 80% from over a billion dollars in the early ninety's to 200 million last year. The trend has caused most card makers to shut down. And has affected how card's look. Major League Baseball signed an exclusive contract with talks dealing a potentially fatal blow to the one remaining competitor -- Which can still use players' faces but must air -- out team names and logos."
" If you want to have pictures that aren't doctored. You have to go with a -- product. So at some of like monopoly."
" dug out near Berkeley is what about 500 card -- left in the US. The staff -- say games like Pokemon lure kids away from sports cards. And that the steroid scandal has impacted interest and prices up former All-Star sellers like Barry Bonds. Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire yeah."
" Gentry who let -- do you think."
" Many stores sell cards on consignment this woman found a bunch stashed in erratic. And there are still avid fans to be found -- the way -- human body can Ryan LaMont focuses on so called relic cards that may include an autograph. Jersey swatch or tip of the game backed. But some feared the century old hobby and the industry it's bond could be headed for the showers I think we're gonna see it fade away --"
" I hate to say that."
" But I think twenty years from now people may not know what -- artists in Albany California Claudia Cowan Fox News."
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