Index to my hobby history posts

[trdcrdkid]

Over the past couple of years I've made many posts here on Net54 about the history of our hobby, most of them including scans of old hobby publications from my collection. I thought it might be useful to gather links to many of those posts in one place, organized by topic, to make it easier to find what I've posted. Here is a first attempt at doing so, subject to revision.

Hobby pioneers:

Jefferson Burdick:
Collector directories, 1937-38 and 1940:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=241674
The Burdick Collection, 1947-49
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=240887
Lionel Carter (and others) on Jefferson Burdick:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=224897
1993 Syracuse article on Jefferson Burdick:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=224583
Jefferson Burdick in The Wrapper, 2001-2007
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=228520

Preston D. Orem:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=228930

Walter Corson (1899-1966):'
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=232220

John Wagner
The Other John Wagner:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=207915
Bray-Wagner letters, 1939-48:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=242090

Buck Barker:
Buck Barker's 1949 card collecting articles in Sports Exchange Trading Post:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=222057
Card Collector's Bulletin, 4/1/57: Buck Barker on errors, Lionel Carter's wantlist:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218784
Lionel Carter obituary of Bob Jaspersen and Buck Barker:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219926

Lionel Carter:
Lionel Carter on T206s, 1956:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=225029
Lionel Carter on T205s, 1956:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217240
Lionel Carter on T207s, 1956:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217590
Lionel Carter's card columns in Sport Fan, 1955-57:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=227125
Lionel Carter in Sport Fan, 1957-59:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=227451
Dec. 1957 Hobbies magazine: Lionel Carter on baseball cards, Sullivan on scorecards:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=223388
Lionel Carter sells a card collection, 1959:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=227453
Card Collector's Bulletin, 8/1/69: Lionel Carter, hobby history:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218786
Lionel Carter at the 1972 Detroit show:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=221673
Lionel Carter on grading cards, 1973:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217914
Lionel Carter at the 1974 Detroit show:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217706
Lionel Carter on Card Collector's Bulletin:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=221807
Two hobby obituaries by Lionel Carter, 1974-76:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=221758

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The American Card Catalog

The 1939 United States Card Catalog:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=241036
The 1946 American Card Catalog:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=241174
The making of the 1960 American Card Catalog:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=241175

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Early auctions

The first card auction -- the Colkitt collection, 1943
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=239891
Early card auctions, 1944-45
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=240726
Tobacco card prices, 1944-1957:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217334

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Early checklists and other card research

The first T206 checklist, 1941
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=239973
The first T205, T202, T207, T201, and T204 checklists, 1940-41
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=240161
First checklists of T209, T210, T211, T212 (1942-43)
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=240273
The discovery and evolution of T213s, 1942-1986
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=242387
The first E90-1 checklist, 1942
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=242268
The first Old Judge checklist, 1944
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=240420
Articles on Old Judges, 1955-62, 1970
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=225081
Articles on T210 and T212 from 1957-66
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=225026
Tracking down 1949 Leaf baseball:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=232507

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Early card dealers

Card dealers of the 1950s:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=233137
Profile of a card dealer in 1960:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=221922
Card dealers of the 1960s, part 1: Taylor vs. Gelman
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=233392
Card dealers of the 1960s, part 2: Yeko and Oreck
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=233772
Card dealers of the 1960s, part 3: James T. Elder (+hobby drama, 1968-69)
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=234476
Gar Miller (+1973 Chicago convention)
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=234348

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Early conventions

The 1956 "national convention" that never was, as reported in Sport Fan:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=221393
1958: the first sports collectors' convention, hosted by Lionel Carter:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=227505
1969: The dawn of card conventions:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218969
More on 1969 and the dawn of card conventions:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=222019
The first-ever sports collectors' convention: August 23, 1969:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=221671
1969 Michigan convention:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=221975
December 1969 convention in Massachussetts:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219732
1970 sports collectors' conventions: Mid-Atlantic and Midwest
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218560
1970 card conventions in The Trader Speaks:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219073
1971 West Coast and Detroit shows (and early hobby publicity) in Ballcard Collector:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218371
1971 Detroit convention program:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219361
1971 Los Angeles convention:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219119
1973 Detroit convention in Sports Scoop (with Wagner auction):
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219016
Gar Miller (+1973 Chicago convention):
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=234348
History of the Detroit convention, 1970-1978:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=220678
Program from the first Philly show, 1975:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=241369
1977 Detroit convention in Sports Collector's News (16 pages):
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219018
Pictures of the first National, 1980:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=235353
The second National, Detroit 1981:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=235356

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Historical card prices

Tobacco card prices, 1944-1957:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217334
T206 prices in 1962 (including Wagner and Plank)
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217680
The hobby 50 years ago, July 1967:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=242724
Prewar price list (E cards, Old Judges) from 1970
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219401
T206 prices in 1973, plus hobby profiles
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217278
1973 card auction prices
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=216343
SCD article on card prices, 1966-1976
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=216494
1975 sports card catalog with prices
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=203206
1976 clearance sale of T205 and T206:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218638
Auction results 1977-78 (incl. 1952 Mantle), reported by Lew Lipset:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=243152
Beckett price survey in SCD, 1977-78:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=216495
1978 Beckett price survey
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=203202
1979 vintage card price list
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=209650
Lew Lipset sale catalog, winter 1997
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=234851

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Well-known collectors of the 1970s

Keith Olbermann:
Keith Olbermann on 1973 New York card convention:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217584
Olbermann on 1973 New York show:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217820
1974 profile of Keith Olbermann in Sports Collector's News:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217739

Bill Mastro:
Bill Mastro in the hobby press, 1969-70:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=221977
1971: Mastro gets his Plank:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218999
1971 Sports Advertiser's Journal: Mastro, etc.
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=220718
1973 Bill Mastro profile in The Trader Speaks:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217776
1976 Mastro auction:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=218636
The Bill Mastro collection (as auctioned by Legendary, 2010):
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=243023

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Firsthand memories of card collecting, 1880-1933

1929 New Yorker article on card collecting in the 1880s:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=202129
Memories of card collecting in the 1880s (from 1942-43):
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=239836
Memories of collecting T206, T205, T210, and T209, 40 years later:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=235011
Wirt Gammon remembers T205 and T206 in 1971:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217635
Memories of collecting 1933 Goudey in Ballcard Collector, 1970:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219310
Memories of collecting in the 1930s (in Ballcard Collector, 1973)
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219683

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Early hobby articles in the popular press

1945 Sporting News article on baseball card collecting:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=238775
1945 Esquire article on "The era of the cigarette card":
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=219020
1946 Trading Post article on baseball cards:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=247398

[brianp-beme]

Wow, this post should be instantly enshrined in the Net54 Archive Center. I have enjoyed many of the threads started by David, and now can easily check out the ones I missed.

Brian

[rhettyeakley]

Insane amount of information and I love the easy to use index you created, I second the motion to add to the Net54 Archive!

[Jason]

Glad to have this plethora of information all in one place now. I too have enjoyed all of your posts with the information provided in the index. Thanks for all the hard work David.

[Leon]

Wow, this post should be instantly enshrined in the Net54 Archive Center. I have enjoyed many of the threads started by David, and now can easily check out the ones I missed.

Brian

We will get a link put in our archives. Great work, David.

[pherbener]

Thanks for putting this all together David! As I'm reading/ re-reading through some of this stuff again, I noticed the pricing in the mid 50's and it's noted that the t206's were gaining on the t205's in terms of price/popularity. i guess I've always assumed the "Monster" was always the favorite (p. 15)
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217334

[Michael Peich]

David--Thank you for organizing your extremely informative posts. This is enlightening archival material, and I am thankful it will remain available for all of us to enjoy.

Cheers,
Mike

[PowderedH2O]

Agreed. I've spent many hours on the above threads. Great content!

[BeanTown]

David--Thank you for organizing your extremely informative posts. This is enlightening archival material, and I am thankful it will remain available for all of us to enjoy.

Cheers,
Mike

+1

[Peter_Spaeth]

David should change his user name to Archive. :D

[Baseballcrazy62]

Great idea. Thank you so much!

[LeftHandedDane]

David, I had seen only a few of these individual topics before and enjoyed them immensely. Now I can look forward to hours of additional education and fun going through all the others.

Your contributions to the hobby are enormous! Capturing this treasure trove of historical information about the hobby for current and future collectors is of a value that cannot be measured. Thank you so much!

Ed

[Leon]

This thread is now linked (thanks Brian) in our Net54baseball Archive Center. It is the yellow icon letter folder, 2nd from right, in the row of icons.
Thanks again, David. That is a yeoman job!!

http://www.net54baseball.com/forum/content/archivecenter.html
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[1952boyntoncollector]

Dont worry, ill gather all of my posts as well and put in one spot.