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Posted By: Bob Lemke

Barry, FYI, Baseball Cards magazine debuted with a Spring, 1981, dated issue. It was the first-ever card hobby publication on national newsstands. It was initially published as a "one-and-done" trial balloon, but when the initial press run of 100,000 was snapped up, another 25,000 copies were rushed to the market. The mag remained a Spring and Fall pub for the first couple of years, then went quarterly, then bi-monthly, then monthly.

By the late 1980s I turned the editorial reins over to Kit Kiefer, whose unique personality created the image that most of you remember . . . fun, irreverent, and totally focused on the collector. Kit loved all sports and all sports cards and it showed in the pages. He was the real dirivng force behind expanding the repli-cards that were bound into the magazine into an every-issue thing. When a new stick-up-his-ass president took over at Krause, Kit continually butted heads with the guy and even began deliberately pushing the envelope in print. He wasn't long for the job after that.

I'll go out on a limb and predict that nobody at Krause will complain if members of this forum want to post their favorite aritlces, etc., from the magazine.