Baseball Cards Magazine vs Beckett

[J.McMurry]

The thing that turned me off to Beckett in the 90's,(just my perception at the time, and I'm weird) was that it seemed to have endless articles on modern players, their popularity, etc. It was like reading a Sports Illustrated magazine. I wanted more indept knowledge of the hobby itself,especially vintage.

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by J.McMurry

The thing that turned me off to Beckett in the 90's,(just my perception at the time, and I'm weird) was that it seemed to have endless articles on modern players, their popularity, etc. It was like reading a Sports Illustrated magazine. I wanted more indept knowledge of the hobby itself,especially vintage.

See my previous comment -- that was what the majority of our readers wanted. As I said, pricing and the interest in new cards trump the detailed articles on old cards

[J.McMurry]

Understood Rich, wasn't denigrating the Beckett business plan, just stating what led me from being a subscriber to buying 1 issue every three/four months for the pricing. I like Beckett.

[Rich Klein]

NO i understand totally and I bet if there was a way to popularize articles on older cards and players we would have done that. Trust me, we always wanted to add items about older cards and players and those usually ranked so low on our ratings.

Of course, with hinsight, 20 years later those articles would be the favorites of the readers but you have to live in the moment.

[DaClyde]

I still wish there was a way to have an online archive of all those old magazines. There is an enormous wealth of information buried in there that a whole generation of collectors will likely never have access to without buying old back issues.

[tulsaboy]

Who owns the copyright to all of the BBC stuff? I still have several years of them in boxes. Would be happy to scan some but don't want to run afoul of anyone's rights.

[Rich Klein]

I would presume F&W has updated thier copyrights and thus still has all of those.

Rich