Vintage Baseball Card Books - Help Me Add to the List Please

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by that T206 Guy

So My Question is What Books am I Missing that I Need to Buy?

I am Especially Looking for Books on 19th Century Cards like Old Judge.

The only two books that deal with 19th century baseball cards that I am aware of are #'s 9 + 10 on your list...and they are really good ones.

Brian

[1880nonsports]

[that T206 Guy]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

The only two books that deal with 19th century baseball cards that I am aware of are #'s 9 + 10 on your list...and they are really good ones.

Brian

Those are the Two I want Most

[toppcat]

I'll blow my own horn and add:

The Modern Hobby Guide To Topps Chewing Gum: 1938 To 1956 by David Hornish

It covers baseball, other sports and non-sports plus has a history of Topps and its founders. Free color version available (you can order the book too but it's B&W only), with a link to my much neglected blog with updates:

http://themodernhobbyguide.blogspot.com/

[that T206 Guy]

Originally Posted by toppcat

I'll blow my own horn and add:

The Modern Hobby Guide To Topps Chewing Gum: 1938 To 1956 by David Hornish

It covers baseball, other sports and non-sports plus has a history of Topps and its founders. Free color version available (you can order the book too but it's B&W only), with a link to my much neglected blog with updates:

http://themodernhobbyguide.blogspot.com/

Thanks

Added to the List.

[jerseygary]

While not a true baseball card book, my book The League of Outsider Baseball: An Illustrated History of Baseball's Forgotten Heroes tells the stories of some famous but mostly not-so-famous ballplayers with very interesting tales. Besides writing and researching the book I illustrated it as well, with most of the portraits done in a tobacco card style. Here are some shots of it:

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And I also publish a 68 page magazine called 21: The Illustrated Journal of Outsider Baseball which like the book tells the story of obscure players and stories illustrated with my baseball card illustrations:

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[that T206 Guy]

Originally Posted by jerseygary

While not a true baseball card book, my book The League of Outsider Baseball: An Illustrated History of Baseball's Forgotten Heroes tells the stories of some famous but mostly not-so-famous ballplayers with very interesting tales. Besides writing and researching the book I illustrated it as well, with most of the portraits done in a tobacco card style. Here are some shots of it:

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And I also publish a 68 page magazine called 21: The Illustrated Journal of Outsider Baseball which like the book tells the story of obscure players and stories illustrated with my baseball card illustrations:

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Thank You

They Were Added to the List.

Do you do the Artwork?

It looks Amazing.

[bigfanNY]

Jeffrey Burdick's American card catalog. Is the canon of baseball card books.
The 3 book lew Lipsit set should be at top of your list. It will bring a better understanding to everything else you read.
I would also get sports collectors bible 1st or 2nd edition
Any sports card diagest's
And you can pick up old SCD or Beckett catalogs cheap I would get a couple maybe every 5 years or so you can see how prices have changed over the past 40 years or so they have been around.
Hope this helps
Jonathan

[jerseygary]

Originally Posted by that T206 Guy

Thank You

They Were Added to the List.

Do you do the Artwork?

It looks Amazing.

Yes, I do all the illustrations as well as write the stories and conduct the research. The books came out of my website, The Infinite Baseball Card Set, which I started back in 2010 after my father passed away suddenly. He and I had a great relationship and would talk several times a week about baseball and odd ball characters that played the game. When he died, I was living in Hollywood, and none of my friends like baseball, let alone the history of the game, so I had no one to talk to about characters like Benny Kauff or Memo Luna. So late one night I started this little blog on which I drew a simple baseball card. Because the players were not well known, I had to write their story to make it interesting, and before I knew it people were coming to the site.

Over the years the stories and drawings have become more involved. I still write the blog as well. Keeps me off the streets at night...