Old sporting news World Series edition (1942) - much value in this?

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Originally Posted by BobC

Unfortunately, because it is a newspaper type material and print, it won't have a lot of value. It is hard to even make a guess on the overall value of your edition, as it could depend a lot on exactly what photos and stories are in it. Like the Ruth photo you mentioned that may garner some additional interest from a Ruth collector looking for a new image never before seen. And of course there is the condition of the newspaper as well then. Old newsprint is about the most fragile collectible item out there. Most TPGs, to my knowledge, don't go and encapsulate random newspaper photos and images either. Now if your edition had say some 1936 Sporting News Sports Stamps in it, which is a sort of recognized collectible set, that would be greatly different. In you case though, without being able to see all the actual stories and photos/images in the paper, along with not knowing just how fragile and bad the condition is, if it were me, I probably wouldn't spend more than say $25-$75 on something like this. And that might even be a little generous. Good luck, and still a nice item to pick up IMO.

Thanks for the POV and take… as you said the photos and stories (so many in this one alone) make it a pretty cool piece, even if the value is modest!