Posted By:
Frank WakefieldAmen to all above.
I get mad when I see the listings. Some unfortunate person occasionally buys one of the cut outs.
There are two tragedies to this mess... one, a potential collector / newcomer to our fine hobby gets burned and discontinues the hobby. And two, a good guidebook or recordbook ends up mutilated into pieces. And the really good part of the book, the printed stats, is probably trashed.
I recall seeing individual pages from Speed Johnson's fine Who's Who book offered on eBay some time back. Most guys were $10 each. More for stars, much more for big stars. It is a wonderful book, shame to see it broken up.
Map collecting is another of my hobbies. Most of the old maps come from from an old atlas. I'm talking 400 years old, or so. I like the old maps, but it still troubles me that once the were part of a fine book, that has now been cut apart or separated.