The card market is about 1/3rd of what it was.

"...the whole industry was surging, with Topps

and its competitors selling $1.1 billion worth

of trading cards in 1991 alone. According to

reports at the time in Sports Collectors

Digest, about 90 percent of those were sports

cards, with the remainder a mixture of other

kinds of entertainment cards..

Today, sports cards sell at a fraction of their

former level and now amount, at best, to a

$350 million to $375 million wholesale

business nationwide, said Scott Silverstein,

executive vice president at Topps."