I always find it interesting when people post old articles about baseball cards. I know Night Owl and Topps Archives, for example, do so from time to time. This week, I came across a Craigslist post with someone selling just such an article. Someone is selling a page from the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel from June 29, 1980 which the seller claims is the oldest article ever about baseball cards as a potential investment.
The seller, Andrew, is offering this single page of newspaper, which he calls "the holy grail of something which hasn't even been thought of yet". If you want to own this copy yourself, he is selling it for the completely and totally reasonable price of $750.
If you don't have that much cash to spend on one page of a 1980s newspaper, though, the photos in the post make it quite easy for those who are interested to read the whole article for themselves. Nothing really groundbreaking here, but fun to see the state of the hobby in 1980. Click on the photos for a larger, more readable version.
A 67T Mantle for $32. Those were the days.
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