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How Baseball Cards Became a Financial Bubble Atlantic Online

25.03.10

, Claiming entrée to a network of scouts and coaches, promised collectors "insider scouting knowledge" that would help them invest in the cards of rising big-league prospects. Collectors bought bundles of rookie cards as a way to gamble legally on a actress's future...

In 1989, the Upper Deck Co. would transform the industry with flashy, high-priced cards aimed at investment-minded collectors. As the sales of new sports cards swelled to more than $1 billion a year, children began to do a bunk the hobby, turned off by the pricey packs and confounding number of sets. The baseball strike of 1994 ushered in an industrywide hangover that still hasn't ended. Revenues from new sports cards have fallen to around $200 million a year, mercilessly one-seventh of what they were at their peak. While vintage cards like the T206 Honus Wagner and the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle have continued to escalate in value, baseball card's boom times produced no such valuable merchandise. Those 1988 Donruss cards, once considered a savvy investment, can now be bought in mass for around 1 cent apiece .

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Vintage vinyl lives on at record show OCLNN

28.03.10

Sine qua non a vinyl LP for that vintage Magnavox stereo console in your mid-century modern living room? Or how about a 45 rpm hit single of a favorite oldie for that classic Wurlitzer jukebox you just got through restoring for your den? Or peradventure you just like old albums for their cover art or simply prefer the sound of vinyl records over digital.

If so, you might shortage to head over to the The Greater Orange County Monthly Record Show in Buena Park on Sunday. The event, held the last Sunday of each month (except for August and December), is thus an Orange County institution — it’s been around for more than 20 years — but not well-known outside of gatherer circles.

Relative obscurity aside, dozens of dealers will be offering thousands of vinyl records (along with a presumed smattering of CDs, memorabilia and other items) to scads of fans Sunday at the UFCW Union Hall on Stanton Avenue. Vinyl junkies can find crag in all its forms dating back to the ’50s, as well as genres like blues, jazz, soul, country, surf, motion picture soundtracks and even easy-listening faves such as Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. In other words, something for everybody. Prices orbit from $1 for used but listenable 45s to $25 and up for rarer pieces.

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