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

[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

[JLange]

Two very good baseball postcard references:

Sports Postcard Price Guide, J.L. Mashburn, 2nd ed. 1998.

Tuff Stuff's Baseball Postcard Collection, Ron Menchine, 1999


One very good book for researching cards / players / teams:

Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century, Marc Okkonen, 1993

[Leon]

It took this long for someone to mention the most important book there is to vintage card collecting, The American Card Catalog. Blasphemy. That, the Big Krause SCD and Lew's Encyclopedia(s) would be stalwarts to any baseball card book collection. I believe it's the first 3 I acquired.

Originally Posted by 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]

There was a book that I had back in the early (I think) 80's called "Baseball Cards: A Collector's Guide" by the editors of the Consumer Guide. It was spiral bound and had all these great cards and wrappers in full color. I pored over that book for hours! I still keep a look out for one when I go to used book stores, but no dice so far. I think I recall one of the editors was a member on this board.

Anyway, it might not be that interesting today with the internet and all, but back then it really brought those old cards to life!

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