Best "Baseball Card" Book Ever?

[1880nonsports]

give dimension to a hobby niche or collection - whether glossy pix to it for you or you want contemporaneous accounts of a game or an era . Lew's books were important as are any of the other ones mentioned here and worth the "read". A few of mine from Lipsett, Lifson (yes that Lifson!) and Kashmanian to Haeger and the Topps tomes......

[Wildfireschulte]

Lots of good suggestions here, but my vote for best “baseball card” book is The Card - about how Mastro and Lifson bought the famous T206 Wags and all of the shenanigans (and delegate scapel work) behind the scenes at auction houses.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by 1880nonsports

give dimension to a hobby niche or collection - whether glossy pix to it for you or you want contemporaneous accounts of a game or an era . Lew's books were important as are any of the other ones mentioned here and worth the "read". A few of mine from Lipsett, Lifson (yes that Lifson!) and Kashmanian to Haeger and the Topps tomes......

I may someday need to 'cull' my collection. Let me know if you're looking for anything in particular...I may have it and would rather share it with a fellow enthusiast than donating it to some faceless public library.

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[T206Collector]

Got this one for Christmas 1987, and it changed my collecting perspective towards vintage.

https://www.amazon.com/Classic-baseb...s=books&sr=1-1

[Gary Dunaier]

It's not about cards, but one of my favorite books is Souvenir Programs of Five Great World Series by Bert Randolph Sugar (Dover, 1980). It reprints the 1914, 1917, 1919, 1926, and 1934 World Series programs in their entirety.

If you collect the Opie series of WS program reprints, you need this book because the 1926 program included here is the Yankees version, which Opie did not reprint (he did the St. Louis program).

[xplainer]

On a lower level, back in the 90’s, Consumer Reports had a book on baseball cards detailing every major set released into the 1890’s. Generic, I know, but had a lot of info to digest. Inch thick or so. Pretty good book (with pictures )

Currently, Scot Readers T206 ebook is a must read for the Monster collector. Go as deep as you want. But here, I learned of the different backs,scarcity and things to look for.

Net54 is all about friendship and education. In the few years I have been here, I have learned so much about prewar cards, that I would not learned anywhere else.

P.S. - I am not related to Uncle Leon

[ramram]

My favorite is also Jay, Joe and Richard’s book. My only complaint is why didn’t they do it in color instead of just doing it all in the cheaper sepia tone. Also, they should have shown all the different back variations.

Rob M
(tongue planted firmly in cheek)