The Encyclopedia of Baseball Cards
In the Live Auction page of this website, someone was selling a copy of the Encyclopedia of Baseball Cards by Lew Lipset. I had bought volumes 1, 2 and 3 back when they were first published and when I saw the listing, it reminded me of a question that I had always had.
Lipset had always intended for his Encyclopedia to be 6 volumes and include M, W and pre-WWII R cards, but volumes 4-6 were never done. Does anyone know why he stopped after the first 3 volumes? He was still a fairly young man back when they were first published (early 1980s). I've always been curious as to why he never completed the project and wondered if anyone here knows him or knows why.
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