1896 chopped up Spalding

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Posted By: runscott 

I would love to see one of these 1896 Guides before Roy Huff took his scissors to it - it has some great photos. BTW, the real value to these guides "whole" is that they actually have stories, stats, and other writing in them. Once chopped up, all you have is selected pictures with "partial text" on the back - all else is lost. These are "books", not "folios" of stand-alone pictures. No baseball historian or anyone that places any value on books would do to these what Roy Huff does. I contacted someone who recently sold a book to "PSA10GEMCARDS" on ebay, letting her know that this guy simply tears the pages out and sells them individually on ebay (even the back covers!) - her reaction was to try to get me to outbid him on the remaining guides. I even went to the extreme of offering her more than book value so that this jerk wouldn't end up with them, but she got greedy and refused. So get ready to see a few torn up Reach guides on ebay soon! (nice condition ones)

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