Originally Posted by NewChief

My experience with the cards is that kids that age don't actually play the game. They just get the cards and compare them and crap, basically like collecting matchbox/hot wheels cars. There is a game to be played, but my 6 year old cousin doesn't actually play it. He just wants cards, cards, and more cards.

Right when Magic: The Gathering came out, a bunch of friends and I played all the time in college. It was a lot of fun to sit around and play. Made for some interesting social circles as well, because we ended up having Magic parties with people we'd never normally hang out with. Anway, the fad eventually went away. On a tangent, I know one of the guys that invented Magic which then morphed into the company Wizards of the Coast, which then bought out TSR and was subsequently bought out by Hasbro. He and his buddies invented the game while attending a small liberal arts college in the Northwest. He's now a multi-millionairre and probably one of the more eccentric rich people you'd ever meet.

Originally Posted by Coach

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that kind of fun and all. I'm just simply saying, that get your boy to at least keep some solid names (Pujols, Zito, Jeter, etc etc) cards in mint condition, whereas sometime down the road, those cards will increase in value, where he can get money in return by selling them off.

I got quite a collection that I'm planning to hold onto until whereas I may be at the 60-70 age (If I live that long, of course) where I may sell it off and get additional revenue.

I have 2 cards, out of God knows how much I got (Which I do have a BUNCH of them) and they both to me, will bring high value down the road.

2004 Topps Total Silver 375 Ben Roethlisberger (Mint Condition)
2006 Topps Red Hot Rookies 1 Reggie Bush (Mint Condition)

Originally Posted by Jenson71

Hmm. I've got loads of cards I collected when I was young. Sanders, Smith, Marino, Rice, Favre. I doubt I'll break even if I try to sell them in 60 years. It's possible that I don't know what I'm talking about, but what I've heard is cards aren't rare, and no one likes them anymore.

Originally Posted by Reaper16

You know Richard Garfield? Holy shit...