As I mentioned in my intro post last month, I have one of the few hardcover copies of the 1980 Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide (the second year it came out). I got it in about 1993 from Don Steinbach of the Sports Collectors Store in Chicago (actually in La Grange at the time), along with his copies of the other annual Sport Americana/Beckett guides through 1990. He said that Beckett had a few hardcover copies of the 1980 volume printed and sent to some prominent card dealers, including him.
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