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Influential baseball card books...
Posted By: peter ullman
I used to have a soft cover book...now lost in my parents house...called most valuable baseball cards. I remember it had a 51 bowman mantle...among others on the cover. It wasn't particularly detailed in any one area but had a nice smattering of oddities. |
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Posted By: James Feagin
There was a book called the "Great American Baseball Card Trading, Flipping and Bubble Gum" book that was released sometime back. It basically took cards from the 1950s and gave stories regarding these cards from a child/fan perspective. Great book and I've loved it since I was 8. |
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Posted By: scgaynor
"Great American Baseball Card Trading, Flipping and Bubble Gum" |
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Posted By: Rob Dewolf
James beat me to the punch. I read The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book so many times it practically fell apart. As a pre-teen in the mid-1970s, seeing and reading about all of those great 1950s and '60s baseball cards -- and the classic Johnny U. football card -- along with the comments from the author, cemented my future as a collector. |
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Posted By: J Levine
Loved this book so much I actually put together a set of cards that goes with the book. Many of the cards are fairly easy to find and I think the most expensive one was a Paige. Great book! |
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Posted By: Fred Y
That was the 1st book that came to my mind also! For those few who may NOT be familiar w/ it, here are pics of my well-read copies: |
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Posted By: MVSNYC
if you don't have it, you must get it! |
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Posted By: Alan
I completely agree with Michael. Slocum's book is the greatest !!! |
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Posted By: MVSNYC
BTW, the book is a true coffee table book, like cramer's...(barry & jeff). weighs about 10 pounds, it's huge! |
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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
DITTO......for the "The Great American BB Card Flipping, Trading & Bubble Gum Book" book. |
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Posted By: Roland
The best I ever read. My copy has Bobby Thomson and Herb Score cards on the cover, copyright 1973. Any value for this book. Not looking to sell , but curious. |
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Posted By: hank
I have a copy of "Most Valuable Baseball Cards". This 64 page full color publication covers "N", "T", "E", "W", Goudey, Bowman, Topps and many regional & anonymous issues. It was written by Christopher Benjamin in 1990 and was a Perigee Book published by The Putnam Publishing Group in New York. The front cover also features the T206 Wagner & Plank, '33 Goudey Lajoie & Ruth, '34 Gehrig, '14 Cracker Jack Cobb,and '41 Playball DiMaggio plus the '51 Bowman Mantle. |
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Posted By: peter ullman
thanks Hank...that's the one!!! I really like the book...but haven't been able to find my copy. next time in MD...I'll have to look harder!!! |
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Posted By: Joseph
"Great American..." is wonderful and inspirational, but for nuts and bolts card history, I can't believe we're so many posts into the thread and the name "Lipset" hasn't been mentioned. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
My mother gave me that book for Christmas one year...I have always thought it was an underrated book -especially for the time when it came out. |
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Posted By: leon
Dan, |
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Posted By: Matt
I agree, and I have this book pictured above. There are no Hustler t206 cards. It is an absolute Urban Legend. |
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Posted By: Hal Lewis
I've bit my tounge long enough! |
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Posted By: Peter Thomas
After I read the book, my wife read it cover to cover non-stop. She did complain about the lack of page numbers. It is certainly the first "sports" book read by my wife - quite a feather in your cap. Very nice read - now that HP is not in your way, the sky is the limit. |
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Posted By: Hal Lewis
Glad to hear that it was a success! |
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Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Good books, guys. The Monster certainly spurred collectors on. Mr. Lipset's 3 Encyclopedias are indispensable. And it seems to me that even though it is thick and lists lots of new, shiny stuff, the Standard Catalog is becoming a necessary book. I still look at The American Card Catalog... And Mr. Sugar's Sports Collector's Bible is still useful. |
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Posted By: P Spaeth
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Posted By: peter chao
We're talking about influential baseball card books...not about junk. |
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Posted By: Pcelli60
Burdick and Lipsett and pretty much thats all by way of "influential" written work. The impact of these publications still hang large over the hobby. |
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