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From Topps to DraftKings, the boys of cardboard summer
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American Thinker Blog
Once upon a time in America, baseball cards weren’t collectibles or “investments.”
AdvertisementA pocket full of baseball cards was a boy’s fortune.
Topps, whether they realized it or not, was in the business of printing the unofficial currency of many a boy’s childhood.
Topps had been king of the baseball card world since the early 1950s, when it muscled Bowman out.
Somewhere in Boston, in an air-conditioned corporate office, a former schoolyard baseball card shark is explaining “customer engagement” to DraftKings investors.