'Musts' for any vintage collectors library

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Posted By: barry arnold

I would greatly appreciate any thoughts regarding books,etc. in your
libraries which have been critical to your research and pleasure in the area of pre-war vintage baseball card collecting.
I will list what I have here at home with me as a start.

The Encyclopedia of Baseball Cards vols. 1,2,3 by Lipset

The American Card Catalog edited by Burdick

Classic Baseball Cards The Golden Years 1886-1956 text by Slocum(as a side note,this Heavy folio volume contains the most fabulous pictures of the cards from this 'era' that I have had the pleasure of viewing, in a book format)

The Baseball Chronicle Year by Year History of Major League Baseball, Nemec et al

T206 The Monster by Heitman

Scot Reader's ebook on T206

Baseball and Tobacco by Canfield

2008 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards, vintage edition

Cobb by Al Stump

The Glory of Their Times by Ritter

The Black Prince of Baseball by Dewey and Acocella

The Big Bam by Montville

Ty Cobb by Alexander

Old Cardboard, various issues

Sports Scoop, various issues

all the best,
Barry