One aspect of card blogging that has always puzzled me is the large number of bloggers over the years who seem to have a great affinity for cards from the late 1980s all the way into the late 1990s. Yes, it's perfectly natural to have different loves in cardboard, but as somewhat of a card blog outlier who loves everything 1970s, I couldn't help but notice sooooo many odes to Pinnacle and Pacific, tributes to Ultra and Tek, and allegiances to Griffey Jr., Gwynn and Canseco. The card blogs were skewed toward the 30-something crowd and have been since I've been blogging. Why is that? I think I've discovered why. Or have a theory anyway. It's nostalgia. More specifically, the 20-year nostalgia cycle. Perhaps you've heard of the 20-year nostalgia cycle. It's cited as the amount of time required to produce a steady stream of nostalgia for a particular decade. Growing up through the 1970s and the decades that followed, I've noticed this trend myse...
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