Is Anyone Updating the SCD Card Catalog?

[butchie_t]

My thinking out loud thought is just to focus on the vintage aspect of the catalog. With all the available web access to modern cards, not sure it would even be viable to include modern cards as well as vintage.

Then what would be the cut-off for vintage? 1979, 1973, 1986?

And how many would be willing to take this on?

What am I even saying at this point? I'm probably nuts for even bringing it up.

Cheers,

Butch T.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

My thinking out loud thought is just to focus on the vintage aspect of the catalog. With all the available web access to modern cards, not sure it would even be viable to include modern cards as well as vintage.

Then what would be the cut-off for vintage? 1979, 1973, 1986?

And how many would be willing to take this on?

What am I even saying at this point? I'm probably nuts for even bringing it up.

Cheers,

Butch T.

You keep bringing it up because it's your destiny Butch.

[butchie_t]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

You keep bringing it up because it's your destiny Butch.

Damn, don’t pull the Darth Vader on me….. freaks me out. ;-)

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

Damn, don’t pull the Darth Vader on me….. freaks me out. ;-)

I remember the day I picked up a significant amount of E98 commons and thinking what'm I gonna do now? Am I really the guy that's going to commit to finishing an E98 master set? I decided yes, stripped down and jumped into the deep end. It's that simple and difficult at the same time.

Good luck, I'll help with the west coast stuff where I can.

[FrankWakefield]

Bob Lemke was a distinctly different individual. Meticulous. Patient. Intelligent. Trustworthy.

And it is going to take a similarly special person to create an updated version of the Standard Catalog.

I communicated with Bob about a few corrections I had, one was changing the Lelivelt card from Jack Lelivelt to William Lelivelt, they were brothers. When I discussed some cards he had that he wanted to see in person, that meant I had to package my treasured Green Joyce card and mail it to him. He mailed it back. And after that, I was good with mailing him other cards for him to see. I'm sure others of you did that with him, or you got to meet him in person. I mention this because of what has been previously mentioned about not just trusting an email with a digital image that someone sends.

I'd like to see an updated Standard Catalog. Could this board do it? Could we commit to prepurchase catalogs to raise money for remunerations for an editor or editorial team? It would be a long term project... but then it's not like anyone is printing new Old Judges, Collins-McCarthy's, Nadja's, or T cards to be considered.

[whiteymet]

Back in the 1970's Woody Gelman, Rich Egan and one other fellow I believe ,whose name escapes me at the moment (maybe Ron Greenwood) were planning on doing an updated ACC

What their plan was and I think it would be a great idea today, was to break it up and for "experts" in each "field" to head up and write about their area of expertise.

I was assigned Topps issues since back then I was writing articles in The Trader Speaks about Topps test sets and the like. I still have my records from then and visited Topps in Brooklyn to talk to Woody and go through Topps files as they were at the time. I recently sent copies of all this to Dave Hornish who has picked up on things Topps since on his superb site.

If someone would head it up experts could be assigned like Adam Warshaw for Exhibt cards, Doug Goodman for BB Magazine issues, Dan Mabey/Ken Marks for Post Cereal/Jello, Teddy Z. for Leaf and T206 etc.

I am not versed in pre war but I am sure you all know guys here who specialize in certain issues like Tobacco cards, Caramel cards, Strip cards, Hot Dog cards, Regionals .....on and on. Guys could volunteer to do certain areas/sets, research write up and post to a thread here for others to see/read/comment/correct etc. before publication

A group effort written by those who have collected and researched in their specialized collecting fields would make the most sense to me and break up the work into many hands in lieu of one person trying to tackle it all.

[Vintagedeputy]

Originally Posted by whiteymet

Back in the 1970's Woody Gelman, Rich Egan and one other fellow I believe ,whose name escapes me at the moment (maybe Ron Greenwood) were planning on doing an updated ACC

What their plan was and I think it would be a great idea today, was to break it up and for "experts" in each "field" to head up and write about their area of expertise.

I was assigned Topps issues since back then I was writing articles in The Trader Speaks about Topps test sets and the like. I still have my records from then and visited Topps in Brooklyn to talk to Woody and go through Topps files as they were at the time. I recently sent copies of all this to Dave Hornish who has picked up on things Topps since on his superb site.

If someone would head it up experts could be assigned like Adam Warshaw for Exhibt cards, Doug Goodman for BB Magazine issues, Dan Mabey/Ken Marks for Post Cereal/Jello, Teddy Z. for Leaf and T206 etc.

I am not versed in pre war but I am sure you all know guys here who specialize in certain issues like Tobacco cards, Caramel cards, Strip cards, Hot Dog cards, Regionals .....on and on. Guys could volunteer to do certain areas/sets, research write up and post to a thread here for others to see/read/comment/correct etc. before publication

A group effort written by those who have collected and researched in their specialized collecting fields would make the most sense to me and break up the work into many hands in lieu of one person trying to tackle it all.

Excellent idea!

[doug.goodman]

I, along with a couple other well known collectors / chroniclers of the issue(s) have been working on an "update" of the Baseball Magazine posters(m113/m114) catalog.

At one point I reached out in a couple directions which I thought might potentially yield some helpful info for our endeavor but I didn't receive any responses.

Oh well, the journey continues.

Doug



PS - Lyman Hardeman's OldCardboard.com site is doing much that is being discussed in the thread.