Sports Collectors Digest

How Mike Cramer’s Pacific Trading Cards changed the hobby

Sometimes when something happens you don't immediately realize the long-term significance of it. It's not until years later that the reality of the impact reveals itself.

The innovation in the 1990s by Mike Cramer of Pacific Trading Cards fits that description aptly.

I recently had Mike on Sports Card Nation on episodes 254 and 255, but before I did I read an

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