Complete first issue of SCD -- October 12, 1973

[moeson]

I attended all of those District 65 shows and still have the commemorative HOF pins they gave out. Bruce Yeko had a stack of 1954 Red Heart Mantles for $1 a card!

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by moeson

I attended all of those District 65 shows and still have the commemorative HOF pins they gave out. Bruce Yeko had a stack of 1954 Red Heart Mantles for $1 a card!

I have a program from the first Cincinnati convention being promoted on the front page of this debut SCD. I wasn't there, though -- I was seven years old and collecting Wacky Packages (my first great collecting love), though we went to Cincinnati regularly to visit family, and my grandfather knew Bob Rathgeber, one of the organizers of that convention.

[ALR-bishop]

Great post, thanks

[jsq]

thanks for posting the scd 1st issue.

nice to be reminded of those days.

in this first issue of scd i see names of people i knew long ago like who were a big deal in the hobby back in the early and mid 70's. i suspect they may now be somewhat forgotten in the hobby. i will mention ONLY the names of substantial collectors who i have NOT seen mentioned in the hobby anymore (not that i read much besides this site). not sure if they are still alive or not.

in the first issue of scd you see:

tommy koppa of dallas who lists he has 125,000 cards to trade in the classifieds.

jack urban of wisconsin has a classified ad. a real solid advanced collector as i recall.

rob bruce from mn, later of california if i recall correctly. rob used to show up at shows with hundreds of regionals in a briefcase. at that time regionals were the most desirable cards and almost all the advanced collectors sought them. rob had glendales, rodeo meats, dan dees, etc. nobody could figure out how he got so many, so often.

stan mcclure, i recall was an advanced collector

charles ault the 4th much younger then the 3 mentioned above. charles was advertising that he had an auction in sports collectors news. i recall charles had a great run of rare leafs show up at the chicago show one year from a friend of his when we shared a table or had a table next to each other, not sure after all these years which it was. i didn't even know what rare leafs were initially. that was a awesome sight of all those rare leafs in one box. he was helpful to educate me on the subject. thats how you learned back before practical guides emerged.

all the best

[toppcat]

Thanks for posting. That bibliography of hobby articles is quite a valuable bit of information.

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by toppcat

Thanks for posting. That bibliography of hobby articles is quite a valuable bit of information.

I know. I posted the 1929 New Yorker article cited by Meiners in this thread:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=202129

It's a great article by somebody who collected Old Judges and other N cards when they first came out.

Meiners' bibliography of articles about the hobby was continued in issues 2 and 3 of SCD, with issue 2 including articles from 1970 to the early part of 1973, and issue 3 including the rest of 1973. I've included those columns below. I'm guessing a lot of these articles can now be found online, but I haven't tried to look for them. In his column in issue 3, Meiners mentioned that since December 1972 he had been "acting as an intermediary between disgruntled collectors and dealers in an attempt to iron out any differences that may arise regarding prices, quality, and service". Some of his articles on these topics appeared earlier in 1973 in Sport Scoop, including a three-part series on card dealers. It's pretty interesting as a time capsule into what card dealers were like in 1973, and I may post the ones I have. Meiners continued to write for SCD for another couple of years, including the 1974 two-parter "Inflation Rocks The Hobby" that I posted last month, but then in 1975 he quit his column in a huff because not enough people were writing to tell him they liked it, and he didn't feel like it was worth the effort. Not sure what ever happened to him, but for a few years there he wrote some interesting stuff.

[toppcat]

I would love to see parts 2 and 3 of the bibliography.

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by toppcat

I would love to see parts 2 and 3 of the bibliography.

I posted them in that reply -- could you not see the pictures for some reason? Here they are again.