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Article: CARD-CARRYING COLLECTORS DESPITE RED SOX WOES, BASEBALL CARDS REMAIN A PASSION FOR MANY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 3, 2006
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Maura Eastman of Hanover is happy to support her son's obsession,
and for good reason. Ten-year-old Joe is crazy about something that's
considered as pure and basic as childhood itself baseball cards.
"There's something so old-fashioned about it," she said.
When her family dines at a restaurant, she tells Joe to leave his
Game Boy at home and instead bring a stack of baseball cards. "I'll
choose a card and read the stats, and Joe and his dad will try to
guess which player it is," she said. "It's become a family thing."
People who aren't raising sports-crazed children might assume that
baseball cards have gone the way of go-carts and Partridge Family
lunch boxes. But the opposite is true: ...