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Posted By: Morrie

"But do those same collectors think it's OK to cut up an old Reach or Spaulding guide, then sell the photos contained within as "cards," with their own specialized holders?"

Whatever they are, they aren't "cards." Maybe I'm missing your point. If you then took them and embedded them in a baseball card the way cut signatures are embedded, then you would have created a card - but just cutting something up and sticking it in a slab doesn't make it a card, and calling it such would probably be fraudulent. Feel free to clarify.

"I mean, that's allowing a collector to own a piece of history too. Considering many collectors wouldn't bother looking for the guides to get the great information, it gives them the chance to get a "piece" of that for their own collections."

It seems pretty directly analogous.

"Please tell me that you agree with this syllogism."

It's not a syllogism (the classic syllogism: Humans are mortal; Greeks are human; Therefore, Greeks are mortal). But cutting up one of the Spalding guides and inserting the pieces into modern cards the way cut signatures, bat sections, and jersey swatches are inserted would IMO be analogous activities, and on the same moral level.

Morrie