Hobby Reference Books

[bcbgcbrcb]

Henry Yee's book on baseball photos is excellent and the annual Standard Catalogue of Baseball Cards is tops in that area.

[thecatspajamas]

Aside from those already mentioned:

Muchinsky's "Baseball Pinback Buttons"
Egner's "Vintage Pennant Price Guide"
Bushing and Phillips' "Vintage Baseballs"
Murphy's "Unopened Pack, Wrapper & Display Box Guide"
"Baseball By The Numbers" (not so much since baseball-reference.com added uniform numbers to the site, but still useful for the occasional lookup)
2009 Standard Catalog (pdf, included on disc with the hard copy, much easier to do lookups strictly for info)

[Exhibitman]

[Shameless plug]



The good ol' ACC is very useful to this day.

[jimtric]

Where can I find Murphy's "unopened pack, wrapper and display boxes'?

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by jimtric

Where can I find Murphy's "unopened pack, wrapper and display boxes'?

I honestly can't remember where I picked it up. I thought maybe on Amazon, but I can't find it there if so. It was published in 1996, and the contact info inside the cover (no idea if current) is:

Mark Murphy
8 Flying Cloud Road
Stamford, CT 06902
(203) 348-5050

No e-mail address given.

[murphusa]

I have kept every auction catalog I got since 1988.

[BigJJ]

Originally Posted by murphusa

I have kept every auction catalog I got since 1988.

That is Awesome