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craigi have been collecting newspapers, sports related, for about 10 years now. they are wonderful ways to read stories of teams/players that most will never experience. the language used is at times difficult to understand, they write much differently then as opposed to today, but for the price there is no comparison. the cost of full papers, or even just the sports sections, is ridiculously low. i usuall pick up papers at antique stores. they can care less about them, most just use the papers for packing material. i have rescued hundreds of complete papers form becoming packing material in antique stores for less that $1 each, these range from the 1950 and before. you can always find sellers on ebay with a multitude of newspaper "single pages" for sale at any given time. they always want $10+ for them, on ocassion you can find a full paper for $15-$25. this IMO is insane. i have never paid that much for a page or full paper, with the exception of one, 1887 pueblo chieftan from my b-day. thought is was cool for $10. i picked up the complete baseball seasons sport pages of the 1962 la times from opening day till the end of the world series for $15 in colorado last summer. hell i doubt if i could keep one of everydays sports pages for this season if i wanted to, but i can surly keep these. as stated earlier in this post, you can find bound volumes of complete newspapers every now and then. i also picked up one on ebay, it was $50 + $20 s+h. the papers were the des moines register from july-sept 1919. the seller was stephen goldman histyorical newspapers. talk about some really cool 1st hand reporting about the upcoming world series. these full papers are chock full of photos including many many sports ones. if i could give any advise about collecting sports related newspapers, it would be to have fun and just enjoy the reading while on a very inexpensive hunt for even more reading material. while your at it dont stop with reading the sports sections. my favorites are the classifieds. what a laugh i get when reading "will trade good horse and wagon for used ford truck." hope this helps out somewhat. just do me a favor. try to leave some of the midwest untapped during your hunting so to leave some for me.
sincerely
craig