If you collect shoes and don’t know anything about the peak of the sports card era from the mid-80’s to the early 90’s, I would highly recommend ‘Jack of All Trades’ on Netflix. Why am I, The Sneaker Savant, telling you about a documentary about sports cards on Netflix? Because I feel like the collectible sneaker market is following a VERY similar path that the collectible sports card market followed. One minute, everyone and their mother was a ‘collector’, and the next minute the bottom dropped out and people moved on to other things. …

It’s not like a profound movie or anything, but I definitely learned a few things even though I felt I already knew quite a bit about the subject. For example – I had *no idea* they (supposedly) kept printing the Ken Griffey Jr. Rookie Card from the 1989 Upper Deck set *well* after 1989. That card was the pinnacle of pinnacles. I looked up a review online, and this guy sums it up pretty well:
… “I tried to focus on the reasons why the film suggested there was a collapse in the trading card hobby. Yes, there were still some very expensive cards…but the film postulates that the card hobby was ruined by speculation, overproduction, price manipulation from guides, and possibly (although it is never proven) Upper Deck mass-producing Ken Griffey Jr. rookie cards once their value was confirmed…The innocence of the hobby wasn’t there – it was replaced by mass commercialism.”
… Sound familiar?