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07-12-2004, 03:50 PM
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Essential Reading on Vintage Cards, Early Baseball, etc.?
Posted By: warshawlaw
A great piece of investigative journalism written by Pete Williams (McMillan; 1995), who was (is?) a USA Today Baseball Weekly writer. Look for it on Amazon. The book chronicles the rise of card collecting specifically focusing on the Upper Deck company and the seamy side of its dealings. He does a very good job of tracing the history of card collecting up to 1980 and a tremendous job of explaining what happened when the hobby exploded into prominence. Just about the best thing out there when it comes to understanding the business of cards as it presently exists. Of course, it was written just before the internet revolution, so it doesn't cover ebay, but the rest of it is painfully dead-on. 
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