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Posted By: Jon Morgan
Whoever, |
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Posted By: David
The world's largest 1909 T206. Though story has it that at least a couple of similar mammoths used to roam the prehistoric hobby. I hear that their bones still exist and are displayed from time to time. |
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Posted By: David
I recommend that you buy from amazon or your local bookstore a copy of SCD's Standard Catalog of Baseball cards (Krause Publications). This is particularly true if you have a collection of cards. |
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Posted By: David
Not wishing to offend and as Beckett people lurke & participate here, I note to the young lurkers of the world that the Beckett annual is also a fine guide. I own elderly copies of both SCD & Beckett, and you can stub your toe just as painfully on either version. |
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Posted By: Todd (nolemmings)
Two weeks ago I bought my first Beckett annual in 15 years, mostly as an impulse buy because the SCD was out of stock at the local Barnes & Noble. I'm glad I bought it for comparison purposes, but wondered what others felt. For those of you who don't own one, it only has two columns for vintage price, the "top" being ex-mt. I think I like that, since that grade seems far more often encountered than true Nm, but I'm still not used to it. |
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Posted By: Andy Baran
I bought the Beckett book last year, and I haven't seen this year's addition yet. I thought that the information was good, but I did not care for the lay-out, as Vintage and Non-Vintage were mixed together. I prefer the way that SCD has divided the sections, and would enjoy it even more if they would get rid of the Non-Vintage crap all together. |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
That's Standard Catalogue of Baseball Cards, 12th edition. You better get a ruler to measure your card, because besides the funny dimentions, it does indeed sound liike a T206 common (depicting a player not in the Hall of Fame, no special back, and no rare variation). |
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Posted By: TBob
SCD published a book called the "1887-1947 Baseball Card Price Guide" back in 1993. It had a short life but was the best and most useful vintage book I have ever seen. Not as voluminous as the regular SCD price guide but it was the best. I wish Bob would consider putting it out again with updated prices. There were some printing and page compilation problems with my book, anyone else have that problem? Still, a great book. |
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Posted By: Brian Weisner
Hi TBOB |
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Posted By: Jay Miller
Brian--I have a copy of that book. The Old Judge section is basically an abbreviated version of the British Cartophilic Society listing (with I believe some updates). |
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Posted By: Julie Vognar
some sets discovered since then: Alleghenies, and Alphas, just to name 2. Also, I think there was only one kind of Peck and Snyder catalogued at that time, and there's no picture of the GREATEST CARTOON of All Time on the back. |
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Posted By: brian parker
I ordered one of these back in 1993 and actually was so disappointed I returned it with a note listing all the errors and ommissions when comparing it to their vintage listings in their 1993 Standard catalog. They actually only added a handful of set listings, and I felt at the time it was a big rip-off, because it failed to add much coverage on the unusual issues from the time span it was supposed to cover. |
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Posted By: jeff s
why not just tear off the front part of the book? then you have a handy pre-1980 book to carry to shows. has worked for me... |
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Posted By: Bob Lemke
Thanks for the comments and kind words about the Standard Catalog. Because the vast majority of buyers for this volume come from the book trade (Barnes & Noble, Amazon, etc.) and don't seem to represent vintage-only specialists, management has thus far not seriously considered breaking the book into chronological volumes. I saw Alan Rosen at the Pittsburgh show this weekend and he had a nice solution. He took his book to a local Staples, had them cut off the spine and then comb-bind the vintage pages. I think he said it cost him $4. |
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Posted By: runscott
worked like a charm. |
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Posted By: Jaime Leiderman
Bob, did Alan Rosen remove his mugshot from page 1? |
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Posted By: David
I keep it in. Good when dieting. |
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Posted By: Bob Lemke
. . . he put it on the cover. |
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Posted By: David
For Holloween I'm dressing up my Standard Catalog and Beckett Annual as dueling Sumo wrestlers. My neighbor down the street lent me her mumus. |
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Posted By: dan mckee
The post war part of the book makes great firewood. |
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Posted By: runscott
I DID tear that page out. I also kept the post-war section and ripped out some of the minor league pages, sticking them in the pre-war part of the book. On rare occasions I have to refer to the big rejected hunk of the book, so I would also love to see a pre-war version which includes minor league issues. |
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