..for the club to officially end their anti-slabbing stance, if the club is interested in getting a slice of the investor money pie.

And, yes, the club IS the face of hobby.

Maybe the club is not interested in an influx of investor capital and that is..ok..

I have bought and sold baseball cards since the early 1980’s.

I have seen the baseball card industry rise like a phoenix in the mid to late 1980s and then basically crash in the 1990’s.

The meteoric rise again of the sports collectibles industry the past 10 years, both in the number of collectors and in card / memorabilia values, has been mostly a product of the rise of PSA And other legitimate grading companies..