COVID-19 pandemic has revived an old hobby that is turning out big profits for some people, according to a Riverview, N.B., sports card collector.“I have just never seen the value of cards be this high ever,” said Tim Marney, who has been collecting sports cards since he was a child in the late 1970s.
Wayne Gretzky rookie card first hockey card to break $1M milestone While many kids were putting hockey cards in the spokes of their bicycles, Marney said he saw money-making potential even as a boy.“My father used to always say ‘why do you need to have 20 or 30 of this person,’ and I said ‘they are going to be worth some money someday, dad,'” he said.He was right.