Hobby history: Collector directories, 1937-38 and 1940

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04-08-2018, 09:57 AM

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Burdick distinguishes dealers from collectors in his address lists. Do you mean to say there were actually baseball card dealers in 1937? Could they make a living? And how many customers could they have had? I assume all of them had day jobs, and cards were a second income/hobby.

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