How do you like that for a click-bait post title? Actually, this isn't about collecting shenanigans or trading snafus or anything controversial -- as fun as that might be. No, this is merely about how collectors seem to avoid sets that are intended for playing games. You know the cards, Classic, Donruss Top of the Order, MLB Showdown, Topps Attax. The main purpose of the cards is not to look at them and collect them, but to use them as the instrument in a game. Of course, rabid team collectors like me don't look at them as game-playing devices at all, but collectible cards like any other set. I do not differentiate between Topps Attax and Topps Heritage when it comes to accumulating Dodgers. Send them all my way. But I get the feeling that some collectors avoid "game cards". Perhaps it's all the words and numbers running across each card like a sports ticker, cluttering up the photo. Perhaps it's the rounded corners. Perhaps it's the plain backs. ...
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