Author: James Beckett
Publisher: Edgewater Books Distribution
ISBN: 9780937424513
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 816

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Author: Jim Beckett
Publisher: Edgewater Books Distribution
ISBN: 9780937424339
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Author: Brendan C. Boyd
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316104296
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Reflections on collecting baseball cards in childhood accompany remarks on the skills and achievements of players whose pictures were found in bubble gum packages

Author: James Beckett
Publisher: Edgewater Books Distribution
ISBN: 9780937424797
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 1260

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Author: Book Distributors Edgewater
Publisher: Edgewater Books Distribution
ISBN: 9780937424308
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Mark K. Larson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780873412391
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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From the baseball card hobby's oldest, most trusted authority, Sport Collectors Digest, this book represents the most comprehensive coverage of minor league baseball cards issues from 1909 to 1993 to be found between two covers. Sets include T206 cards, TCMA, Star Co., ProCards, Zeenuts, Best, Classic Best, SkyBox, Upped Deck, Fleer, Team issues, and regional issues from the 1940s--1990s. More than 40,000 players are checklisted, and more than 1,900 team sets are priced in three different grades. Pre-1980s cards are listed in Near Mint, Excellent and Very Good. Sets issued since 1980 are listed in grades Mint, Near Mint, and Excellent. Dave Platta, a frequent minor league baseball card contributor to Sports Collectors Digest, provides an overview of minor league cards, tracing their history from tobacco cards of the early 1900s to the boom in collecting in the early 1990s, when as many as 10 companies were issuing at least two team sets.

Author: William M. Simons
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476602735
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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The 2011-2012 volume in the Cooperstown Symposium series is a collection of new scholarly essays that use baseball to examine topics whose import extends beyond the ballpark. The essays represent 16 of the leading presentations from the two most recent proceedings of the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held on June 1-4, 2011, and May 30-June 1, 2012. The essays are divided into six parts. "Baseball History, Myth, and the American Past" considers the distinction between reality and remembrance. "Decade of Transition: The 1960s in Baseball and America" explores a critical passage in the evolution of the nation and the game. "Baseball Economics: Owners, Profits, and the Public" provides perspectives on sports as business. "Out of the Bleachers: Women Umpiring and Playing" links the game to those who participate and care about it despite the expectations of atavistic gender roles. "Casting the Game: Stage and Screen" examines theatrical and cinematic treatments of baseball. Part 6, "Game of Numbers: Statistical Baseball," examines the sport and its artifacts quantitatively.

Author: James Beckett
Publisher: Edgewater Books Distribution
ISBN: 9780937424230
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Author: William M. Simons
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476670153
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Widely acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research. This collection of 15 new essays selected from the 2017 and the 2018 symposia examines topics whose importance extend beyond the ballpark. Presented in six parts, the essays explore baseball's cultural and social history and analyze the tools that encourage a more sophisticated understanding of baseball as a game and enterprise.

Author: Dave Jamieson
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802197159
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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“An entertaining history of baseball cards . . . An engaging book on a narrow but fascinating topic.” —The Washington Post When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson’s parents sold his childhood home a few years ago, he rediscovered a prized boyhood possession: his baseball card collection. Now was the time to cash in on the “investments” of his youth. But all the card shops had closed, and cards were selling for next to nothing online. What had happened? In Mint Condition, his fascinating, eye-opening, endlessly entertaining book, Jamieson finds the answer by tracing the complete story of this beloved piece of American childhood. Picture cards had long been used for advertising, but after the Civil War, tobacco companies started slipping them into cigarette packs as collector’s items. Before long, the cards were wagging the cigarettes. In the 1930s, cards helped gum and candy makers survive the Great Depression. In the 1960s, royalties from cards helped transform the baseball players association into one of the country’s most powerful unions, dramatically altering the game. In the eighties and nineties, cards went through a spectacular bubble, becoming a billion-dollar-a-year industry before all but disappearing, surviving today as the rarified preserve of adult collectors. Mint Condition is charming, original history brimming with colorful characters, sure to delight baseball fans and collectors. “Jamieson explores the history of card collecting through an entertaining cast of characters . . . For anyone who can recall being excited to rip open their newest pack of cards, Mint Condition is a treat.” —Forbes