[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by Leon

There are quite a few collectors, me included, who study the history of the hobby. David Karthman (hey David) is the king of hobby history on this forum. .FWIW, digitizing everything would be a monumental project. Here are a few links to some hobby letters from early on..

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=207878&page=3

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?p=1528717

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I have almost all hobby publications from the 1930s up to the early 1990s, and many from the 1990s (mainly SCD and Beckett). Until about 1970, the vast majority of them were done on a typewriter and reproduced by either mimeograph or spirit duplication (dittoes), and they were typically a one-person, or sometimes two-person, operation. Some of the editors/publishers are still around (like Steve Mitchell of this board).

If anybody wants to look up something specific, I can try to find it. Otherwise, I've written many hobby history posts here on Net54 that make use of my publication collection and include scans from them. I compiled links to many of those posts here:

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=253510