So true about Sports Collectors Digest back in the day. You would get your issue, go to a place in your home without any distractions, then go through it---page by page. I would have scrap paper handy to use as bookmarks. After a fun, concentrated hour of studying the magazine, I would go back to the bookmarked pages, weighing which cards I wanted the most, then pick up the phone and call. You had to be QUICK about it, though, because hot vintage cards in prime condition sold FAST. Many was the time I would hear, "sorry, that's already sold".
By the late 80s, SCD hit on the idea of offering subscribers the option of having their issues delivered via first class mail. Whoa--was that ever expensive, several hundred bucks! I just could not pull the trigger on that enticing way to get the latest issue a day or two before anybody else, to get first dibs on a card I might want.
However, for the good stuff I began to want, it did not matter when I got my SCD. More and more, the best stuff had to be fought out over a phone auction. The best card in my collection was from an SCD phone auction---Mr. Mint in 1988----Chapter 13 in my book, NEVER CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN!
The previous comment is a non--shameless plug for my own book. Look for chapter 8 RIGHT NOW on SPORTS COLLECTORS DAILY, concerning one of the toughest post-war regional sets of them all!
Thank you for a good thread topic. Anxiously waiting each week for SCD brings back a lot of fond memories.
---Brian Powell
10-15-2016, 05:44 PM
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