Early 2000s baseball cards are making a comeback. Annual sales of baseball cards dropped from $1.2 billion in 1991 to under $300 million by the early 2000s. Many collectors abandoned the hobby as a financial pursuit after realizing many of their 1980s and 90s baseball card investments had little long-term value due to extreme oversupply. Not only did the card market crash, but the hobby also started facing more competition for young people’s attention. New and improved video game consoles, like the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation, gave kids other ways to spend their money. Local hobby shops closed across the country. As hobby shops declined, eBay and grading were starting to take over. Around the same time, Topps introduced the X-Fractor in 2003, one of the most recognizable parallels of the era. | eBay But in the early 2000s, the rise of the internet led to the rise of eBay.…