Small Ball: Topps selling digital trading cards at a rate of one pack per second
Quick, look at your smartphone’s screen. Does the size and shape remind you of anything?
To an old-school wax-pack kid like myself who actually used to attempt to chew the cardboard-like gum wrapped alongside my baseball cards, the screen of my smartphone is approximately the same size as the Rickey Henderson rookie card I still display on my desk.
And while card values have plummeted in recent years, Topps, which first started producing baseball cards back in 1951, has stepped things up big-time in the digital market, enabling the next generation of baseball and soccer fans to collect digital trading cards via iOS apps Bunt and Kick.
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