The lost art of sports card collecting
By KYLE McDANIEL
The world of sports card collecting is an ever-shrinking market, as more and more children have less interest in them.
Matt Mortenson from Mountain View Sports, a sports collectible shop at Speedway Boulevard and Wilmot Road spoke about his thoughts on card collecting today.
“The biggest factor I think is kids have phones, iPads and so many other avenues besides cards, so it’s not as cool as it was when I was a kid,” he said.
With the increased awareness about how some sports will leave you with health issues later on in life, parents are enrolling their children in other activities.
Over the last seven years, children ages 6 to 12 that participated in team sports was about 56 percent, according to the Aspen Institute, an edu...