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Originally Posted by whiteymet

Back in the 1970's Woody Gelman, Rich Egan and one other fellow I believe ,whose name escapes me at the moment (maybe Ron Greenwood) were planning on doing an updated ACC

What their plan was and I think it would be a great idea today, was to break it up and for "experts" in each "field" to head up and write about their area of expertise.

I was assigned Topps issues since back then I was writing articles in The Trader Speaks about Topps test sets and the like. I still have my records from then and visited Topps in Brooklyn to talk to Woody and go through Topps files as they were at the time. I recently sent copies of all this to Dave Hornish who has picked up on things Topps since on his superb site.

If someone would head it up experts could be assigned like Adam Warshaw for Exhibt cards, Doug Goodman for BB Magazine issues, Dan Mabey/Ken Marks for Post Cereal/Jello, Teddy Z. for Leaf and T206 etc.

I am not versed in pre war but I am sure you all know guys here who specialize in certain issues like Tobacco cards, Caramel cards, Strip cards, Hot Dog cards, Regionals .....on and on. Guys could volunteer to do certain areas/sets, research write up and post to a thread here for others to see/read/comment/correct etc. before publication

A group effort written by those who have collected and researched in their specialized collecting fields would make the most sense to me and break up the work into many hands in lieu of one person trying to tackle it all.

Excellent idea!