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The Other One (Julie)The goals of VCBC are to deceminate pleasure and information to vintage collectors. I'm not SURE this will help you get a PhD in sports history--suppose they skip something--that you happen to be covering intensely. I think you should look through the index, and see which issues appear to you to be likely to have the most use (and pleasure) for you, and after you've studied these for a while, decide whether you want the whole shebang.
I've found every issue delightful--and this is often most true of issues that cover things I DON'T concentrate on in my collecting. They tell me things I wouldn't otherwise know. But nobody but you can know what the focus of your studies will be.
It's also true that the magazine is primarily one of sports COLLECTING, not sports history--but there's plenty of that as well. I'll never forget the thrill of the article in the first issue covering the 1919 World Series from start to finish, written before there was any hint of scandal. I believe the author concluded that Cincinnati simply had better pitching than Chicago--which fits perfectly with the words of the pitchers inviolved: you are the one who has to lose this game; others may help, but the loss rests squarely on YOU.
Great stuff..