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Aaron M.One note from Joe's quote of Bruce's initial post: "And best of all, there are profiles with photos of the country's great collectors---so you'll finally get to put a face to the legend."
This actually makes me wonder if Bruce even read the book.
Ideally, Bruce's description would have been accurate and then we'd have the kind of memorabilia book that the marketplace has been clamoring for, as opposed to another book which uses memorabilia or historical artifacts to deliver and other "history of baseball" approach which focuses more on the game and its history than the collections and the collectors.
However, as far as I can tell there isn't a single photo of any individual collector's except Stephen who is shown on the inside book jacket above his bio.
Another sad (at least for me) example was the section on World Series programs from the Clister's collection. The only mention of them at all was that they are father and daughter and from Pittsburgh. That's it. I'm not kidding. No photo. No photo of them and the mass of their collection. Nothing on why they chose to collect this niche. Nothing on their best deals or favorite programs. Nothing other than their names and his city of origin.
To me that's a major disappointment. I'm going to try and finish the book tonight and will post a detailed review of the book on my blog this week. Hopefully it'll get better (I still haven't read Rob Lifson's pinback section!).
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