The hobby that bonds us

In 2019, I was reintroduced to the hobby that as a child I enjoyed. The hobby of sports trading cards collecting and selling hit a big boom since the pandemic. In the summer of 2019 my older brother, Walter, called me and told me he was going to buy football cards. At this point I was still collecting cards but had not purchased any new product in about two years. He seemed very excited about getting his cards and did some major research on it and how the hobby was skyrocketing. He opened his eBay store and began selling cards online. Every day he told me about how fast the cards were selling and I know I wanted to get in on it. I remember I bought a box of Donruss Optic football cards from Target. It was my first box of cards in a while so I was still a little unclear on some of the value for them. I pulled a Kyler Murray Pink Rated Rookie card and I called my brother right away. He had been trying to pull that card for about a…