The original edition was released in 1977 with a few supplemental pages over the next few years as additions to the checklist were confirmed. The original has comb binding and a green cover. Production was quite limited, though Brian could confirm with his dad how many were printed. In the late 90's / early 2000's there were more than a dozen 'new' and serious Zeenut collectors and I did make copies for them at no charge. At least one of those individuals copied my copies and began selling them. As Rhett mentions, most of the information has been incorporated into modern checklists, though it still remains as the foundation research project on the series. At some point an updated work , including photo-checklist , player identities and marketing / background information tables would be a nice project, similar to the magnificent work of Richard Masson, Jay Miller and Joe Gonsowski's work on the Old Judge series. However, as they will attest, these projects are money losers, despite the claims of many "supporters" that they would buy one. .... As far as values of the originals are concerned, I've sold unmarked copies in the last few years for around $100, and marked copies for around half of that. I should add that my 'original' is barely intact from overuse, but as Brian states, it is priceless.
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