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Podcast: Sports Cards Live
Episode: Why We Care About Cards + Predicting What Becomes Iconic + Rookie Logos on Inserts?
Description: Part 4 shifts from “what annoys us” to the deeper stuff: what becomes iconic, what makes us anxious, and what actually fires us up as collectors.
Chris McGill lays out what might be the biggest collector question of the next decade: you can’t reliably predict which cards will transcend their peers, but you can study how it happens. His take is that a card needs to hit the “main stage” of the hobby consciousness. People need to see it, compare it, and give it time for lineage and tradition to develop. He uses Nikola Jokic as an example, c...