re: Sports Cards Pricing/Value....

At this point baseball cards will only increase in value as historical items. There is no separate market anymore, or at least a significant enough one to really drive prices to worthwhile levels.

But in time, people will keep losing or throwing them away, and your era baseball cards will attain some value for documenting the game. The market is still flooded with 80s and 90s cards, but that'll change eventually. Eventually they'll probably gain a little value, and in the meantime they'll be fun to share with your children/grandchildren, assuming you make them put down the iPad.