There are 6.3 MILLION Baseball Card Collectors?

[mouschi]

This picture was posted by tier1dc and it shocked me! It was taken from the Topps Industry Summit. this blows my mind if it is true!

 

[bstanwood]

I suppose it depends on how you define collector but if they simply polled a sample and asked do you own any baseball cards or something very simple like that then extrapolated it out I think it's believable.

 

[mhcook]

That seems to be an extremely high number.

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[gamecockfanatic]

That seems to be an extremely high number.

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i actually think it's an extremely low estimate (though i am considering all sports , not just baseball).....

 

[bstanwood]

96 million baseball fans out of the 325 million people in the United States. 6.3 million collectors out of all that. Again I think it really all depends on how you define "collector" but I think that seems possible/reasonable.

 

[finestkind]

I also wonder how they got that number. I didn't turn in my towns Census request. Does it make a difference ?

 

[mrmopar]

I think back to the time when I first discovered baseball cards (cards in general). If it were not for the small grocery store type retailer, I may not even be collecting today. You hardly ever seem to see card sold that way now, but they were at every store when I was a kid. The exposure it seems is much more limited (or narrowly focused) than it ever way, forcing you online or to a specialty store (hobby shop or big box retailer) to even find them.

I am guessing that you may still find a rare stray box at an old gas station or small grocery store, but where else would you see them besides a Target/Walmart type place. They do have major traffic between them, but maybe that is not enough or cards just are not appealing anymore to the average kids.

 

[nosterbor]

96 million baseball fans out of the 325 million people in the United States. 6.3 million collectors out of all that. Again I think it really all depends on how you define "collector" but I think that seems possible/reasonable.

325 million people, I thought that many lived in New York City.

 

[finestkind]

Population of New York City is 8.6 million. Too many for me. I've never been downtown NY city. I've driven Rt95 in NY.

 

[tramers]

LCS is 95% gamers / comics- NO single sports cards just packs /boxes . some 2017 boxes