The Economist on the Baseball Card Bubble

James52411 · Dec 31, 2014

Nothing new for experienced collectors, but still a fun read about the expansion and contraction of the hobby by one of the most prestigious magazines in the world.

http://www.economist.com/news/chris...-classic-financial-mania-baseball-card-bubble

swish54_99 · Dec 31, 2014

Interesting article, thanks for the share. It doesn't surprise me that something like a hobby would rise/fall with actual economics and the economy involved.

tonsofcommons · Dec 31, 2014

TL;DR

I got half way through the article and couldn't take the over articulated tripe the writer presented any longer.

Thanks for taking my super awesome and fun hobby and making it sound uber fancy and high brow.

Holy hell!

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Dilferules · Dec 31, 2014

tonsofcommons said:
TL;DR

I got half way through the article and couldn't take the over articulated tripe the writer presented any longer.

Thanks for taking my super awesome and fun hobby and making it sound uber fancy and high brow.

Holy hell!

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Wow I'm surprised you made it that far, I couldn't bear reading any more after:

Your correspondent fell under the spell of the mania, shelling out what meagre allowance money was available for prized “rookie cards” (those issued for a player’s first professional season), encasing the treasure in hard plastic and then mentally spending the riches that were certain to result. While comparing collections the young punters would swap apocryphal tales of forgotten hoards found in attics or cellars

I can't stand obnoxious writing like this...it manages to be both masturbatory and boastful about their amazing writer skillz at the same time. We're ever so impressed by our correspondent! It's a story about baseball cards, not a story about how you write, you insufferable turd.

tonsofcommons · Dec 31, 2014

Glad I wasn't the only one. I stopped after he felt the need to describe what a baseball card was. Lol

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Kennesawsportscards · Dec 31, 2014

Exhausting reading..... I feel the need to start talking about RAR, WAR, oWAR, dWar and other value above cost topics about the baseball players we collect for fun and/or profit. Maybee we all need an economist. LOL

weight333 · Jan 2, 2015

A baseball card is a rectangular piece of cardboard paper, about the size of a small smartphone, with the picture of a baseball player on one side and his biographical details and statistics on the other.

Pine Tar · Jan 2, 2015

That article is sure brilliance, but something I lack, in order to continue reading past the first paragraph.

as I read this, had I not seen the title first, I would have thought the article would have been about drugs. Really I would

FOR evidence that the inclination to barter and truck is in our genes, one need venture no farther than the nearest schoolyard. Lurking within school walls is a thriving economy, which begins with swaps of one lunch item for another and progresses to the flogging of assorted sweets picked up on a weekend run down the candy aisle. Yet the informal economic education goes beyond the mechanics of supply and demand. Often enough it runs to finance: it is on the playground that many children get their first real taste of the temptation of speculation.

rsmath · Jan 3, 2015

What do you expect? It's the ECONOMIST and when I think about that rag, I think of the people writing the articles and reading the articles with their noses up in the air!

Can you think of an economist that relates well to the general public, like how space flight has Mike Massimino, science has Bill Nye or Neil Degrasse Tyson or medicine has (ugh!) Dr. Oz!

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