Baseball book market: not dead, but merely resting? Beautiful spalding on ebay

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Posted By: Jason Mishelow

Following on the comments of Cory and Barry I think that the availablity of internet images of these books should only increase the interest in these books. One of the main probelms is that that average collector is not going to be exposed to these works. Not every one has an OJ card but most semi-experieced collectors know what one looks like. When talking about books there simply is no common experice with their contents. I think that many collecotrs would be amazed with the lithos in Athletic Sports (1889) or the American Boys Book (1864). If more collectors where able to see these works they may be more inclined to purchase a copy. Does anyone think that the recent old judge book will lessen the interst in the cards? Persoanlly I have been toying with the idea of putting together a book with scanned excerpts from old and seldom seen works.

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