Old Baseball Scrapbooks

[jingram058]

Well, it's like everything, price-wise. You can still pick them up for $25, but not the ones loaded with memorabilia. But I guess it had to be. Sellers have become cognizant of autographs, Wheaties panels and what not, even if they are glued in. It's like with my cards and baseballs and all the other memorabilia. I have no intention of selling any of it, but who really knows? These old scrapbooks just add something to the old cards, I think, yet another window into what baseball was like. What the era was like. Everything put into them was done decades ago by young fans, I would imagine. Some of them were done with a lot of care. One of them documents Joe DiMaggio's hit streak basically day by day. Another is an accounting of the Memphis Chickasaws (more commonly Chicks) of the Southern Association the year they won a Dixie Series championship. Another has all kinds of stuff associated with Lou Gehrig and his illness, including the entire text of his speech at Yankee Stadium. Another has all kinds of newspaper clippings and magazine articles about Pearl Harbor as well as baseball, and even the big bands of Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw and all the others. How do you put a price on things like that? Surely, much more than $25, so they had to stop practically giving them away. I just am fortunate to have them.