Sports Collectors Digest

Today's top prospects remind me of chasing rookie cards in 1973

As card collectors, we are all prospectors, digging for (cardboard) gold like explorers searching for treasures in the Old West.

Even old-school collectors who compile carboard for the pure joy of collecting are prospectors, looking far and wide for special cards to add to their collections.

The most serious prospectors today are investors, new-age collectors betting big dollars on the speculative value of both

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