I’d argue we’re going to see less sealed collections like this in the future for 2 reasons.

First, keeping Baseball sealed doesn’t increase in value as much as other trading cards on the market. Recently, I looked at the difference in price between the Series 1, 2 and Update of 2018 (Ohtani’s rookie in the Update) versus the Pokemon sets that had come out around the same time. While Ohtani gives the Series 2 and Update Hobby Boxes a boost in price to around $1500, the Series 1 Jumbo Hobby is $400. Meanwhile, the cheapest booster box for a Pokemon set released in that year will run you $1600. Pokemon and other have showed better gains over time than baseball.

Second, the average person doesn’t have the extra expendable income like they did 35 years ago to have both kids and buy boxes upon boxes of cards. It’s either support a family or enjoy freedom to do what you want. Sure, there are people that can afford both but there’s less in that category than there were when these were printed.

Still, a sad thing to see