Is anyone else shocked that 80s baseball cards are almost worthless?

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I collected basbeballs cards in the 80s for fun and b/c they were really going up in value. In 88 or so, an 85 Mattingly was $85 (It's now $2.50). The 88 Donruss set is only $10 (I used to buy packs for about a $1!) Basically there's no 80s card now worth over $60. Kind of disappointing.

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I worked in a card/comic store before and during grad school, from around '92 to '98. This was after the Pro Set football boom, but I got to see firsthand the Wild Card fiasco, the Death of Superman, the Valiant Comics boom, the Bowman craze, the onset of Magic, all kinds of wacky stuff.

When you have predominantly kids (and I mean KIDS, not the people that are driving the poker economy right now) that market is not built to last. Couple that with the insane numbers of cards/comics that the companies produced during that era, and it is no surprise whatsoever that they're all virtually worthless right now.

If the pendulum swings, and there's another boom, the same thing will happen ten years later (or sooner). I'd bet three Ken Griffey, Jr. 89 UD RCs and 10 copies of Spawn #1 on it. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]