Lionel Carter at the 1972 Detroit show (from Sport Fan)

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Here is Lionel Carter's lengthy, detailed, and quite funny account of the Third Annual Midwest Sports Collectors Convention, a.k.a the Detroit show, as published in the November-December 1972 Sport Fan. It's similar in many ways to his account of the 1974 Detroit show in The Ballcard Collector that I posted a couple of months ago (here: http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217706), except this was Carter's first Detroit show, and it was at this show that he first met many of the people he wrote about in the 1974 account, including Bill Mastro and Joe and Karen Michalowicz. The first thing Mastro did was show Carter the T206 Wagner he had recently bought for $1500, and during the Saturday auction, Carter noted, "Every bid placed by Bill Mastro bought quite a turning of heads and a craning of necks, but then, Bill is quite a showman." Yes, that's one way of putting it. Also, in the thread about the 1974 article, somebody mentioned that Lionel had quite an appreciation for the ladies, and that's definitely true here, too.

Anyway, here he is, the inimitable Lionel Carter.