One thing that's great about being a baseball card collector these days is that the card companies are more than prepared to squeeze every last cent out of you. Let me explain. Not so long ago, card companies would ackowledge something called a "collecting season." The season would run approximately from the end of January to the end of September. There was no such thing as multiple sets or the staggering of release dates. Collectors were required to get their cards during that designated season or be doomed to three months of cardless hell. Because from October through most of January there were no baseball cards on store shelves. Everyone understood this. Sure there might be a few pristine (re: untouched) packs of football or basketball cards, but who wanted those? It was like three months of Lent. You went 12 weeks without baseball cards, but it was your penance for those nine months of cardboard avarice. It was sacrifice. It was good for you. Or at least that...
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