Lionel Approves of T.T.S.

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Posted By: Robert Klevens

From the September 1969 issue of The Trader Speaks.

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Posted By: Matt

We?

uh oh...

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Posted By: Anthony S.

Holy cr*p, Bruce is Lionel Carter.

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Posted By: leon

Sometimes I feel this board is a 21st Century Trader Speaks. Many days the front page only has 10-20 different threads but the BST pages can have mulitples of that (in total)......Not that there's anything wrong with that. Thanks for posting Lionel's comments....

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Posted By: Matt

leon - nice analogy. To complete it, we'd have to have 75% of the BST posts be private auctions where bids would be submitted by email and only the seller would know who really bid and decide if the card sold or not.

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Posted By: Bob

LOL. Matt, I noticed the royal "We" also but since he referred to himself in the singular earlier, I breathed a sigh of relief.

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Posted By: Stephen Mitchell

The headline caught my attention and I'm glad it did, for I was editor-publisher of The Sports Collectors Journal referenced by Lionel Carter in 1969. SCJ had just "failed" - due to my voluntary entry into military service (just weeks ahead of a forth-coming draft notice, I feel certain).

Lionel's evaluation was exactly as mine (with regard to The Trader Speaks). Editor-publisher Dan Dischley had sent me a copy of his Trader Speaks in late 1968, early '69 (the memory is dim) with an offer to trade subscriptions. I declined for the very reason the late Mr. Carter gave. One thing that did impress me, however, was the professionalism of Dan's letter and his periodical. But it contained a lot of non-hobby material and I felt it would not succeed. A few months later, SCJ was gone and TTS was on its way to much success.