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07-19-2007, 04:43 PM
Posted By: <b>Judson Hamlin</b><p>Does anyone else out there remember "The Complete Book of Baseball Cards" by a Steve Clark? I just re-found my copy from '77 and it has some interesting interviews with Woody Gelman, Irving Lerner, Wayne Varner (poo-pooing tobacco cards), Mike Aronstein and even Renata Galasso. It also has bits on the old NYC armory show, with a quote from Bob Gallagher "This '54 Aaron was worth $2 a few years ago. Today it goes for $12." An unexpected reminder of one of the reasons I got hooked in the hobby.<br /><br />Amazingly enough, not one word on cockfighting <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14>
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07-19-2007, 05:19 PM
Posted By: <b>boxingcardman</b><p>I got it when it came out, traded it a few years later for a box of 1960s cards, and bought another copy. Great fun for the long-time collectors to read and for newer collectors to get a taste of what it was like as the hobby took off. There is also an amazing amount of misinformation in the book--stuff that has been researched and debunked since it was written.
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07-19-2007, 05:53 PM
Posted By: <b>peter chao</b><p>Judson,<br /><br />Was the book one of the reasons you got hooked...or the fact the Aaron went from $2-$12. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Peter
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07-19-2007, 06:45 PM
Posted By: <b>judson hamlin</b><p>The book - in part because I was fascinated (I was 9) by the different card sets shown. Looking back now, I would agree that there is much that has proven to be wrong. I am a tad envious of $6 T200's though.
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07-19-2007, 06:56 PM
Posted By: <b>Rob Dewolf</b><p>In 1978 our family's summer vacation was a trip to Cooperstown. I spent the majority of the brutally boring -- and long -- car drive from Canton, Ohio, to the holy grail reading and re-reading <i>The Complete Book of Baseball Cards</i>, the second edition of the <i>Sports Collector's Bible</i> and a catalog from Den's Collectors Den. The best part was that <i>The Complete Book of Baseball Cards</i> had a chapter that mentioned Cooperstown, the card shops that were there and some of the cards that were available to buy. Talk about whetting a 15-year-old collector's appetite!<br /><br />Still have those books, too.