Outline · [ Standard ] · Linear+ BASEBALL CARDS: Vintage card market remains strong

By BRIAN HIRO bhiro@nctimes.com


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At Kit Young Vintage Cards in San Diego, there's not much talk of cultivating young customers. And there's no talk of video cards or digital components ---- or new cards at all, really.

When they say "vintage," well, they mean it.

"Ninety-nine percent of our business is in sports cards from the '50s and '60s, and older," said Rob Rosen, the Kit Young sales manager since 1991. "We go all the way back to 1888. Our core collector is not the quick-investor guy. It's the baseball historian who likes to see the old players."

That means for Kit Young Cards ---- Young himself is a former banker who founded the company in 1976 ---- business has been relatively stable, with the expected peaks and valleys based on the economy. When the industry collapsed in the 1990s, the vintage market was left largely unscathed. Cards from the boom era were massively overproduced, but there will always be a limited supply of '52 Mickey Mantles.

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Very Cool!

I remember Kit Young from way back in the late 70's. Great to hear he still deals in the hobby.