re: Are baseball cards still a thing?

From what I hear, you really have to have some rare stuff to have anything valuable. My dad had a pretty large collection throughout the years(had to be over 200k cards and maybe more at a time along with signed memorabilia not even counting the amount he traded and sold). The value has gone down so much in the last 25 years that his collection was just impressive in a volume sense. Signed stuff was very hit or miss. Plenty of true collectors dont want things signed like cards.

I remember when it was nothing to get $2500-3000 for his nolan ryan rookie cards but now they have to be pretty much mint to get into the thousands.

I think the plan is to just hold on to the stuff for as long as possible and hope for the best or at the least have some really cool old baseball stuff. We went through a stretch buying comic books also. Those are just sitting in boxes in my house. None have ever been opened and its basically a collection of first editions to maybe #10s in hopes of them becoming rare one day.