Which books should I ask Santa to bring?

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Hey Rob,

#3 up there gets you the reprint of all 3. The 1st was on 19th century stuff, good for an Old Judge collector, or someone after Harpers Woodcuts. The Early Candy and Gum book covers your E cards, caramel cards, good stuff on Cracker Jack, ZeeNuts... and the 3rd covers T cards, T3s, T201s on thru T215s and upwards. GREAT stuff for a T206 collector, or 5s, 7s, 10s, 11s and 12s. Really good stuff. I bought each soon after they came out. And then bough all 3 again when he almost ran out of copies.

Other great stuff:

The Glory of Their Times, book and cd set.

The Ballplayers.

Baseball When the Grass was Real.

The Celebrant (one fantastic novel, a must for a Mathewson fan).

The Minor League Register, by Lloyd Johnson (if you like minor league cards).

The Pacific Coast League, by Bill O'Neal (if you like Obaks or ZeeNuts).

The Historical Baseball Abstract, by Bill James.

... I've come back to add The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, by Johnson and Wolff, almost of no use if you only care about major league activity, but if you're digging around for where minor league teams were when, standings, the coming and going of franchises and leagues... this is a great book for that.


If you got those from Santa, you're the MAN!!!!