But the past year has been good. Baseball came back big time, fueled by the epic home run barrage by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. People came in looking for McGwire and Sosa cards, Estes said, but ending up buying full packs. And forget basketball. But the football season, which ends Sunday with the Super Bowl, has brought out the card fans.
Rookie cards tend to be the most prized, most expensive cards.
And led by Moss and Taylor, the NFL had a big crop of talented and well-hyped rookies. Card makers are not selling complete sets of all their cards like they did during the glut of the early '90s. The only way to get the cards is in the individual packs. Of course, Estes does that as well. He and other dealers open packs and then sell the individual cards.