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Article: Baseball cards billion-dollar business
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 13, 1992
- Author:
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Any kid lucky enough to have a Frank Thomas baseball card from
the White Sox player's rookie season knows he's sitting on a gold
mine. And kids as young as 8 will be ripping open millions of
packages of new cards this spring hoping they'll discover '92's
hottest rookie inside.
It's no longer just the simple rite of passage for American
boys, who collected and traded baseball cards - and put them on the
spokes of their bikes to make them sound like motorcycles. Now cards
are big business.
The top four names - Topps, Upper Deck, Donruss and Fleer - in
trading cards dominate a market worth $1.6 billion in annual retail
sales. That's just the simple packs of cards that sell for 55 cents
to ...
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