Purpose Over Profit: A Collector’s Journey Back To Joy
I was a card collector during the boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s, like so many kids my age. In an era without the internet at our fingertips, cards were our connection to players, teams, and even pop culture. This was my passion. I used Lotus 1-2-3 to log my cards in a rudimentary spreadsheet, and I had subscriptions to Beckett for baseball, basketball, and football—plus Future Stars. I was as plugged into the hobby as a kid with limited