Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for May 24, 2021

Oooh, NOW’s the time to sell that Kevin Maas rookie card! Bet it’s worth a fortune after 31 years and his Hall of Fame career. What? Errr, perhaps I could interest you in this Bitcoin instead…

The value is what people will pay for them. Interests can change.

That and you don’t have to worry about that incredibly hard piece of gum they used to put in the packs!

Some Cleats sports cards could be a great idea.

I wonder how much money I lost putting all those cards in my bicycle spokes in the early 60s. No matter. Those memories are priceless.

Love the old man’s favorite team – the Wingnuts! Good one, Mr. Hinds.

Interesting, when the value assigned to a object culturally is inconsistent with reality, the culture is broken. (But the people of that culture do not realize that.)

Don’t mention clipping them to your bicycle tires so they’d sound cool when you rode around.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/following-parking-lot-brawl-in-wisconsin-target-pulling-trading-cards-from-store-shelves/ar-BB1gJyMx?ocid=BingNewsSearch

The only baseball cards I ever collected were from Post cereals in 1962, so it included Roger Maris with 61 HRs, Mickey Mantle with 54, Willie Mays with 40, and so on from the 1961 season. I’m not concerned about any value I may have lost by not having them today, but what I want to know is “What ever happened to them anyway?”. I certainly didn’t throw them out, and my mother, who never seemed to thrown anything away, denied throwing them out. What happened to those, and lots of other things from my childhood, are some of those life’s mysteries that will never be solved!

Can’t believe major stores have signs up saying they no longer carry various trading cards (Pokemon and sports cards) because of violence of people stealing them from others. Why don’t they stop selling anything of value?

Pokémon cards, too.