Deadball Stars

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Posted By: jay behrens 

This year's special project form SABR publicatios for its members is a book titled "Deadball Stars of the National League". This is an incredible 370 page book broken down by team with tons of pictures and great reading. If you were not a member this past year, you can still buy this book for thru SABR $24.95 plus shipping. If you were a member, you got this book for free. The American League edition is slated for 2006.

It's books like these and the email lists that make the $50 it costs to join SABR more than worth the money. http://sabr.org

Jay

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Rejoined this year. HOWEVER: they want 35.00 (hardback only offered to non-members 2003!). Bought it anyway.

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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Julie:

Maybe it's because I spent the better part of the last 24 hours driving back and forth in horrendous snow between my son's college and our home and I am way overtired, but what the heck does the picture you posted have anything to do with the massage thread?

Kevin

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Posted By: ramram

I think you took too much cough medicine again!

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Posted By: Julie

who made the tour of Japan (except Musial) that year. National League, vintage, and very pretty. SO THERE. A shikishi is a writing board!

I don't drink, smoke, or do anything else intersting anymore...

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Posted By: ramram

something you don't see everyday. What the heck happened to Musial? Probably just like now...the bigshots can excuse themselves from the promotional crap.

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Posted By: Julie

Also he didn't have a baseball card between his '53 Bowman (nice card!) and his '58 Topps (don't think he was in the Army ALL that time). But I've heard from everyone that he was, and is, a real sweet guy.

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Posted By: Durward

As a member of SABR, I can vouch for Jay’s comments that the Deadball Stars is an excellent publication. Plenty of information is available on the superstar players like Matty and Honus. What makes this book special is that it has the biographies of the more obscure star players (e.g. Patsy Donovan, Slim Sallee, Jake Daubert, Bill Doak …) in this era. I think this group would enjoy and well worth the price of $25.

I enjoy reading this forum but do not contribute much as I’m relatively new to the vintage card collecting arena. I do thank you all for your contributions, as this forum is very interesting and informative.
Thanks again,
Durward Hamil

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Posted By: Three25hits

Agreed -- its an excellent book, and should be a no brainer to anyone collecting pre-war cards, photos, etc...

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Posted By: runscott

You have been involved in the hobby as long as many of us, so please jump in and post your thoughts.

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Posted By: Durward

Scott,
Thanks for the message. I have been a fan of pre-WWI baseball history for a long time but just really started to collect pre-war cards in the fall of 2001. This was the same time I started to explore eBay. During this time I have experienced the growing pains of buying altered, trimmed and over graded cards. On the plus side, eBay has introduced me to the availability and affordability of modest condition prewar cards. I have learned a lot by reading the threads in this forum and given the knowledge of the people posting here I still consider myself a novice. In addition to you, I also recognized a number of people on this forum that I have had very positive transactions with and that is much appreciated. Looking ahead I will post more if I feel I can add value to any of the specific topics.
Durward