Native sports activities memorabilia store bridging hole between generations

CLIVE, Iowa — For some, the love for card amassing started outdoors of sports activities.

“I began amassing in 1977 as a younger man,” saie the Rookie Sports Cards store proprietor Anders Olson. “I keep in mind shopping for packs of non-sport playing cards again within the day, like Star Wars, acquired me actually excited.”

For others, it was sure gamers that put them on to the pastime.

“Within the sixth grade, I began getting again into it,” mentioned Alex Wirth, who works on the Rookie. “That was proper across the time of Patrick Mahomes.”

The Rookie sells sports activities playing cards, memorabilia and extra in Clive.

Olson and Wirth every characterize a special technology of card collectors, however each have the identical ardour for the pastime.

“The joys of the hunt or the chase, I actually take pleasure in,” Olson mentioned.

“It is cool to see how there’s many alternative views to the pastime,” added Wirth. “There’s like individuals who focus extra on classic and folks targeted extra on present stuff, so that you get to be taught extra about gamers, too.”

Whereas the emergence of the digital age appeared to place the pastime on ice for some time, Olson mentioned it is really performed a job in its resurgence as effectively.

“Social media has actually had an enormous affect on the pastime,” Olson mentioned. “Individuals are in a position to form of watch on-line folks opening up bins of playing cards and seeing what’s popping out of the bins. So, it brings new collectors to the pastime after which it is also getting folks that collected prior to now enthusiastic about it once more.”

Similar to a number of the items on this store, card amassing has confirmed to be timeless.

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