Baseball Cards Magazine vs Beckett

[Rich Klein]

NO i understand totally and I bet if there was a way to popularize articles on older cards and players we would have done that. Trust me, we always wanted to add items about older cards and players and those usually ranked so low on our ratings.

Of course, with hinsight, 20 years later those articles would be the favorites of the readers but you have to live in the moment.

[DaClyde]

I still wish there was a way to have an online archive of all those old magazines. There is an enormous wealth of information buried in there that a whole generation of collectors will likely never have access to without buying old back issues.

[tulsaboy]

Who owns the copyright to all of the BBC stuff? I still have several years of them in boxes. Would be happy to scan some but don't want to run afoul of anyone's rights.

[Rich Klein]

I would presume F&W has updated thier copyrights and thus still has all of those.

Rich

[KingFisk]

I really loved some of the articles and would enjoy reading them again....the college professor building his 1967 Topps set was a favorite...the guy who hung out with an elderly Ty Cobb when he was a kid...the interview with Ted Williams... Great stuff.

[hangman62]

Those late 1970s'-1980s days of racing to the card shop to get the latest Beckett ( and the CCP,or CPU)..it was fun.... staring at those + and - signs, .. even buying a card based on the plus sign you just looked at !

I did enjoy reading those other magazines...but couldn't always 'connect" with some of the articles...Salada Coins, Remar, skip numbered 48 Leaf...,just seemed like a lot of weird stuff that didnt appeal to me at the time.....it was much more fun to carry that price guide with you....sometimes I didnt even take into account the values were meant for NM cards..didnt matter... look up that 64T Kaline.... wow $ 18.....then looked at my dog eared Kaline and say.."nice,that went up from last month " ! LOL

[Lueth2048]

I loved BaseBall Cards magazine because of the articles and color pictures.

Beckett always seemed to have crappy articles and I was never interested in the price guides.