"upper deck" news and stories

This morning, I was reading an article from DRAFT Magazine that ran over the summer. A quote from Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head really grabbed my attention. When asked why craft beer was currently booming, he replied:

"What [consumers] are seeing is that the world of beer offers a much more affordable connoisseurship than that of wine. The fact is you can go into a store with $10 and come out with a world-class six-pack of beer. Try and do that with a world-class bottle of wine. It's just not going to happen. That's what is, for me, really exciting, particularly in an economically challenging time like we have right now... [you] can go out tonight to Whole Foods and plunk down $10 and get the world's best something: really great, creative, and artisanal beer that fits into that price."

Oddly enough, this quote got me thinking about baseball cards.

Being a child of the 80's, around 1985, I started going crazy for baseball cards. Turns out I was just one of the sheep because so did the rest of the country. The number of companies selling MLB cards suddenly expanded and card speculation was at an all-time high (or at least it appeared so based on the knowledge I had amassed in the ten years I had been alive).