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Old 04-14-2007, 12:01 PM
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Default The Sum of Our Collective Knowledge

Posted By: Frank Wakefield

This is an excellent idea, a wonderful post.


"We" need someone to accumulate the information and assemble the information on the various card issues in a consistent format, then figure out how to publish that in a book. Maybe call it The Collaborative Encyclopedia of Vintage Baseball Cards, or something like that.

Someone puts together a list of all of the issues (I use that word instead of "set", since there's lack of agreement as to what's in which set). Then folks can volunteer to offer information for various issues. The work in progress is circulated among those folks, revised, and returned to the coordinator. We all kick in some money and get the thing published.

What we need is that coordinator, a master editor... probably needs to be someone in New York, the epicenter of all (good, bad, and mediocre), needs to be a somewhat recognizable name, maybe someone who has some sort of reputable card activity, maybe an auction fellow, wouldn't hurt any if he was well educated, someone who doesn't see red lines when he posts here, if only he'd taught college... an easily pronouncable, memorable name, 2 syllable first name, a strong one syllable last name, initials BS, would be clever.

Who could we get?

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