One who is obsessed with the game of baseball, baseball cards, baseball players, and anything remotely related to baseball is called a keedon (See [baseball]).
> A [keedon] is one who pays exhorbitant amounts of money for boxed sets of baseball cards just to get a good autographed baseball card, which could have been bought individually at the same price or less (See [keedon]).

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