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Originally Posted by toppcat
Thanks for posting. That bibliography of hobby articles is quite a valuable bit of information.
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I know. I posted the 1929 New Yorker article cited by Meiners in this thread:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=202129
It's a great article by somebody who collected Old Judges and other N cards when they first came out.
Meiners' bibliography of articles about the hobby was continued in issues 2 and 3 of SCD, with issue 2 including articles from 1970 to the early part of 1973, and issue 3 including the rest of 1973. I've included those columns below. I'm guessing a lot of these articles can now be found online, but I haven't tried to look for them. In his column in issue 3, Meiners mentioned that since December 1972 he had been "acting as an intermediary between disgruntled collectors and dealers in an attempt to iron out any differences that may arise regarding prices, quality, and service". Some of his articles on these topics appeared earlier in 1973 in Sport Scoop, including a three-part series on card dealers. It's pretty interesting as a time capsule into what card dealers were like in 1973, and I may post the ones I have. Meiners continued to write for SCD for another couple of years, including the 1974 two-parter "Inflation Rocks The Hobby" that I posted last month, but then in 1975 he quit his column in a huff because not enough people were writing to tell him they liked it, and he didn't feel like it was worth the effort. Not sure what ever happened to him, but for a few years there he wrote some interesting stuff.
