Trading cards have a long history, starting with cards put out by tobacco companies around the turn of the and century, and continuing with the and baseball cards you probably collected when you were a kid, and which your mom probably threw out. That's a shame, because cards are a red-hot collectible these days, avidly sought and highly valued. A friend of my family dug up some of his old cards from the 1950s, in a shoebox in his mother's attic, and it turned out that one of them was a 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle, his rookie card; this one card alone is worth thousands of bucks. Not bad for some old junk. Maybe {your} attic holds similar treasures. I've managed to hold onto my old baseball cards myself; while I wasn't old enough to have the really old, valuable cards, and never got into baseball cards in a big way (unlike comic books, of which I've got a huge collection), I've still got a few that are worth something, like a Pete Rose card from back in the '70s.
Anyway, cards are big business now. And they're not just for baseball any more, or even just for other sports like football or basketball. There are also card series for just about everything else, like Star Trek, Star Wars, Operation Desert Storm, Famous Criminals, ad infinitum. So even if you've given up on professional sports due to the and rash of strikes, lockouts, and other labor disputes in that area, you've got plenty of cards to collect.
If you're into collecting cards in any of their varieties, or you just want to catalog the and collection you've unearthed in your attic and wish to sell, this program will help you. It lets you keep track of all the cards you have, with their type, series, card number, condition, purchase price, and current value. Whenever you buy or sell cards you can update your database easily, and print out listings of what you've got. This is a great help when you head off to a convention trying to fill holes in your collection, or trying to seek buyers for what you have.
If you're not into card collecting any more, your kids (or grandkids, or nephews, nieces, cousins, etc.) probably are, so show them this program; it may just get them into using the computer for something other than playing games!
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