Lionel Approves of T.T.S.
 

Posted By: <b>Robert Klevens</b><p>From the September 1969 issue of The Trader Speaks.<br><br><img src="http://www.klevens.com/tts.jpg" alt="tts.jpg">

Lionel Approves of T.T.S.
 

Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>We?<br><br>uh oh...

Lionel Approves of T.T.S.
 

Posted By: <b>Anthony S.</b><p>Holy cr*p, Bruce is Lionel Carter.

Lionel Approves of T.T.S.
 

Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>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: <b>Matt</b><p>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: <b>Bob</b><p>LOL. Matt, I noticed the royal &quot;We&quot; also but since he referred to himself in the singular earlier, I breathed a sigh of relief. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height="14" width="14" alt="happy.gif">

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Posted By: <b>Stephen Mitchell</b><p>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 &quot;failed&quot; - due to my voluntary entry into military service (just weeks ahead of a forth-coming draft notice, I feel certain).<br><br>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.