Folks, our kids are in trouble! Trouble with a capital “T,” and that stands for … trading cards?

Every decade or so, America is swept by a moral panic over how our kids are having fun.

In the 1980s, Dungeons & Dragons had parents worrying their children were in league with the devil. A decade later, experts warned that video games like Mortal Kombat and Doom were converting our kids into killer cyborgs. And in the 2000s, Harry Potter brewed up a fear of witchcraft that hadn’t been seen in this country since the Salem witch trials.

Today, it’s trading cards.

Yes, those same packs you used to buy at the card shop or department store, toss aside the stale stick of flat bubble gum, and hope you’d picked up your favorite athlete — or the one member of the Yankees’ starting rotation you

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