My proposed hobby book...........................

[forgerelli]

Instead of a book why not just build a website? I'd be interested in either one.

I actually collect reprint sets. They're cheap and fun. I also like a lot of the retro or fantasy stuff and collect almost all of it, except the Helmar stuff which is just ridiculously expensive. No way am I paying that much for a fantasy card when I could get the real thing for the same price.

I have that counterfeit card book (somewhere). It saved a friend of mine $600 on a fake 86-87 Fleer Jordan. It was definitely useful and an update book or website would be great.

Scott F

[theseeker]

where are you?

I just got the "Sportscard Counterfeit Detector by Bob Lemke and Sally Grace, 3rd Edition" book courtesy of the USPS. Great work, including the exhausive list of Reprints. The reprint list included the complete Hassan Triple Folders set. I was told by many in the hobby, incluuding Larry Fritsch's son, that no such set exists. The six cards in one of the Dover books was all there is. Yet I seem to recall ordering a nice, glossy full set from the Card Collector's Company in the early ninties.

Is it a case of mistaken memory? Could the legendary Bob Lemke have made a mistake on his list? --OR-- WAS THIS COMPLETE SET INDEED MADE INTO A REPRINT? Bob? Sally? Anybody?

[Bob Lemke]

Hello John,

More than 15 years later, I can't recall if the listing for the complete T202 triplefolders reprint list was valid or not. Didn't Topps reprint some of them, along with triplefolders cards of more recent or then-current players in the mid-late 1990s? It is possible the inclusion of the complete set in that list was based on a n announcement by LFC or CCC that they were planning such a set, but it never camer to fruition.

[forgerelli]

It was Upper Deck that did a T202 type set with more recent players, It was called All Time Heroes of Baseball. They were pretty neat cards and they benefited the B.A.T. charity.

They did reprint a few of the original T202's, but I'm pretty sure only 10 cards were reprinted.

Here's a few ebay listings:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1993-UPPER-D...item19ce730daf

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1993-UD-All-...item4601a6ee96

Scott F

[theseeker]

Thanks Bob, the book was a great find, excellent effort. And thank you Scott, those do look nice.