TCMA past and present...

[Leon]

I have several of these and it looks like TCMA was involved with the catalog in some form? There are quite a few different TCMA items for sale...

I had to block out the address label as I believe the collector/subscriber is still living, at least somewhat recently, at the same address, 35 yrs later

[whiteymet]

A few things....

Hi Mike! Glad to see you here on the Net!

I got my Wagner "through" Mike in the early seventies!

Anyone know what TCMA stands for? I do, but I'll let others post.

Mike held one of the first collector get together's at his home in 1969/70. Not sure of the date. Just recall I was a Sophmore in college at the time.

He gave each of us a sheet of uncut cards and we all "autographed" the sheets on the reverse as a keepsake. See below.

Those signing were:

Bill Haber, Crawford Foxwell, Bill Zekus, David ?, Nate Cohen, Tom Dischley, Dennis Graye, Mile Jasperson, Yours truly, Bruce Yeko, Irv Lerner, Dan Dischley, Mike, Bob Jasperson, Bill Mastro, Tom Collier, Bill Himmelman, Jim MacAllister and Myron Aronstein.

I also previously posted a photo entitled 5 guys with a Wagner in the seventies.

Top L-R: Mastro, Nagy, Haber. Kneeling: Mike and yours truly.

Good Memories!

Fred

[paul]

I have a TCMA-related question that I've been dying to know the answer to for years. Do you have any information about this card or the set it came from? I am a Tom Seaver collector and have never seen another one of these. It has a copyright date of 1985 and a credit line to TCMA at the bottom right. The back is blank.

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TCMA The Card Memorabilia Assocites. TCMATomCollier Mike Aronstein. My guesses.

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Originally Posted by paul

I have a TCMA-related question that I've been dying to know the answer to for years. Do you have any information about this card or the set it came from? I am a Tom Seaver collector and have never seen another one of these. It has a copyright date of 1985 and a credit line to TCMA at the bottom right. The back is blank.

What I think (and will confirm in our archives when I can) was that this was an insert/stiffener for an event cover. It was part of an autographed event cover series featuring various players.

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Originally Posted by whiteymet

A few things....

Hi Mike! Glad to see you here on the Net!

I got my Wagner "through" Mike in the early seventies!

Anyone know what TCMA stands for? I do, but I'll let others post.

Mike held one of the first collector get together's at his home in 1969/70. Not sure of the date. Just recall I was a Sophmore in college at the time.

He gave each of us a sheet of uncut cards and we all "autographed" the sheets on the reverse as a keepsake. See below.

Those signing were:

Bill Haber, Crawford Foxwell, Bill Zekus, David ?, Nate Cohen, Tom Dischley, Dennis Graye, Mile Jasperson, Yours truly, Bruce Yeko, Irv Lerner, Dan Dischley, Mike, Bob Jasperson, Bill Mastro, Tom Collier, Bill Himmelman, Jim MacAllister and Myron Aronstein.

I also previously posted a photo entitled 5 guys with a Wagner in the seventies.

Top L-R: Mastro, Nagy, Haber. Kneeling: Mike and yours truly.

Good Memories!

Fred

Hi Fred, great to see you're here! What a photo! The missing name is Dave Zemsky, from the Bronx, and I still have my copy of the uncut sheet . I'm still very friendly with Bill Himmelman and see him quite often.

[TCMA]

Originally Posted by Leon

I have several of these and it looks like TCMA was involved with the catalog in some form? There are quite a few different TCMA items for sale...

Yes, we produced Baseball Advertiser . It was printed at Yorktown Printing on their web press. 4 times a year IIRC.

[YankeeFan]

Great to see you guys here! I've already enjoyed reading what's been posted so far.

I always liked the SSPC sets and especially liked the team sets like 1960 Pirates, 1927 Yankees, 1919 White Sox & 1955 Dodgers (with their postcard sized team pictures), All-Time team sets...

Looking forward to reading more.

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Collecting the 1963 Topps set.

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Myself and Tom Collier with our Cracker Jack reprints. Not sure of the show. 1972?

[DaClyde]

I've been wanting to write up something of a genealogy of modern minor league card companies, as there seems to have been a lot of convergence of companies (or at least brands) from 1987-1993. How did the TCMA to CMC transition come about regarding the minor league sets produced in the late 1980s? I notice the 1987 cards all have TCMA/CMC copyright lines. TCMA is nowhere to be found in 1988, but in 1989, some (all?) of the "CMC" team sets all say "TCMA CARDS" at the top on the reverse.

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Originally Posted by DaClyde

I've been wanting to write up something of a genealogy of modern minor league card companies, as there seems to have been a lot of convergence of companies (or at least brands) from 1987-1993. How did the TCMA to CMC transition come about regarding the minor league sets produced in the late 1980s? I notice the 1987 cards all have TCMA/CMC copyright lines. TCMA is nowhere to be found in 1988, but in 1989, some (all?) of the "CMC" team sets all say "TCMA CARDS" at the top on the reverse.

I'm not sure of the exact chronology but TCMA wasn't doing well at the time and CMC was, so we formed a partnership of sorts. Eventually, CMC was bought out and TCMA was left to continue on it's own. This process happened over the course of maybe 3 years, after which we started mostly dealing in 8x10 photos.