Dennis C. Purdy

[Leon]

Originally Posted by 53Browns

Is that magazine still in publication? I'd like to find out.

It hasn't been in publication for several years. Complete runs of the set are invaluable to learning about the hobby. Dennis certainly said what was on his mind.

[FrankWakefield]

Of all of the various magazines, I liked what Dennis had going the best. It was the best thing since The Old Judge. Dennis was a straight shooting fellow. You'd have thought he was from Texas...

[bh3443]

Someone on here messaged me and sent my regards along to Dennis last year.
I'll never forget Dennis' article on Alan Hager: A buffalo Hunter in the wild west or his PSA article!
No matter how great or controversial the articles were, Dennis always said he had more info to publish later. He called them the Paul Harvey pages!

[Rich Klein]

I have seen them in bookstores

Rich

[barrysloate]

I was close to Dennis and spoke to him regularly during the run of VCBC. After he sold the magazine we lost touch. I always liked Dennis and we got along well. I assume he left the hobby a while ago, but don't know for sure.

[SteveMitchell]

Dennis is still quite active as an eBay seller although his health could be better. This link will take you to his eBay store:

http://stores.ebay.com/stuffofhistor...4&_sop=3&_sc=1

Since selling the Vintage & Classic Baseball Collector magazine, he has written three (possibly more) books and still resides near Tacoma, WA area where he held the largest of his PNN shows and published VCBC.

As others have said, VCBC was an outstanding periodical and Dennis a talented fellow.

[joshleland]

Not to ruin the party but Dennis did a bad thing as he was going out of business with his publication. Knowing things were pretty much over he went to advertisers and sold cut-rate advertising. Je offered me a “lifetime” ad for something like $1000. I didn’t go for it thankfully but I heard from people who did.

But his Allan Hager expose was the funniest thing I ever read in a hobby publication. Besides Hager deserved it. The other side of the coin was his pursuit of early autograph authenticator Richard Galasso. It was a bit too much like the villager’s pursuing Frankenstein with torches and wood pitchforks. And Galasso being deserving of it was not so black and white.

[irishdenny]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

I was close to Dennis and spoke to him regularly during the run of VCBC. After he sold the magazine we lost touch. I always liked Dennis and we got along well. I assume he left the hobby a while ago, but don't know for sure.

I often Re~read the finely written articles of the VCBC. I'd Like to personally "Thank You Barry" for your enjoyable reads that you contributed to the Mag!

And Yes, Dennis(What a Grand Name ) Purdy was exactly my kind of guy when it came to Saying it Straight.

I have heard that the #7 issue from the VCBC is sort of scarce... If it is so, My thoughts lean towards the idea that its because it's the one where Dennis really speaks his mind about PSA & ASA.

Any Thoughts? Maybe someone bought them up and destroyed them?

[redmansam]

I have always been sorry that there wasn't at least one more issue so I could finish the Waite Hoyt story about Babe Ruth.

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by irishdenny

I often Re~read the finely written articles of the VCBC. I'd Like to personally "Thank You Barry" for your enjoyable reads that you contributed to the Mag!

And Yes, Dennis(What a Grand Name ) Purdy was exactly my kind of guy when it came to Saying it Straight.

I have heard that the #7 issue from the VCBC is sort of scarce... If it is so, My thoughts lean towards the idea that its because it's the one where Dennis really speaks his mind about PSA & ASA.

Any Thoughts? Maybe someone bought them up and destroyed them?

Glad you liked them. They were fun to write, and back in those days, there weren't a whole lot of sources for information. There was no internet, so we had to just go with what we already knew. My favorite article was the one I wrote on rare baseball books in issue #3, and would you believe I did it without any source material at all- back then I knew all that by heart! I checked a few facts out for accuracy afterwards in the editing phase.

Regarding the scarcity of issue #7, the rumor I heard was that PSA bought up all the remaining issues and destroyed them, but I was never able to verify it.