Antique Baseball Cards

2007 Baseball Card Price Guide

Book Description
*Great price point of $21.99 and portable format provides easy access to essential data

Just like a good infielder, nothing gets by this popular baseball card reference. 2007 Baseball Card Price Guide covers all regular baseball card issues from the 1980s to 2006 - more than 375,000 cards, with 2,200 detailed photos for identification, and authoritative pricing based on data from a large network of sports collectibles dealers and auction sales. Easily locate cards from Topps, Fleer, Score, UpperDeck and more using the collector-friendly index.

2008 Baseball Card Price Guide

Book Description
With a more limited supply of baseball card sets on the market, and 20 of the 30 professional U.S. baseball teams reporting increases in attendance in the last year and a half, there's no doubt that this is your season, card collector. No one understands this better than the staff of Sports Collectors Digest, the voice of the hobby and the experts responsible for the reliable and thoroughly researched pricing you'll find in 2008 Baseball Card Price Guide. This one-of-a-kind modern card reference must-have contains nearly 400,000 cards, including packs and boxes, inserts, parallels and rare variations.

2008 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards

Book Description
Large format offers ease of use for any age collector.

Levels the collecting field between casual collectors and big spenders by providing insider pricing and exclusive collecting details.

Standard Catalog of® Baseball Cards possesses all the knowledge and respectability of a veteran infielder, presented in the detail-driven packaging of a rookie homerun hero. This comprehensive price guide contains one million listings for cards from the mid-1800s through early-2007. Completeness of listings and 10,000+ large-size photos allow you to easily locate and assess cards in your collection. Everything from Tobacco Cards of the 1880s and 1910 and Bubblegum cards from the hey day of Gehrig through home plate heroes like Jeter, to specialty cards and memorabilia, critical pricing and identifying details are the key ingredients in this mammoth reference.

2009 Baseball Card Price Guide

2009 Standard Catalog Of Baseball Cards (Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards)

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Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards guide pays homage to the world of baseball card collecting like nothing else, and does it with a balanced accuracy you can rely upon season after season. Packed with more than one million cards and 10,000 photos covering cards from 1863 through early 2008, this mammoth guide reigns, as the largest, and most comprehensive card reference in the collecting game.

300 Great Baseball Cards of the 20th Century: A Historical Tribute by the Hobby's Most...

Product Review
"The beauty of baseball cards," writes Mike Payne in his brief introduction, "is that you don't have to have played the game to collect the men who do play the game." And the beauty of the 300 particular cards that he's collected here is how much these little pieces of cardboard convey about the evolution of the national pastime and the personalities of the players. From the early cards of Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, and the record-breaking Honus Wagner that sold at auction for $640,000 to the 1999 Mark McGuire series commemorating his 70th home run, every picture tells a story.

Dividing his volume into the 10 decades of the century, Payne provides appropriate card and collecting history as he displays significant, though not necessarily the most historical or valuable, cards from each. Every card is accompanied by a ballpark price and short commentary on why that card is particularly interesting. For example, a 1952 Mickey Mantle card pictures a pensive, almost troubled young Mantle, avoiding eye contact, his arms folded protectively over his chest. Payne reminds us that Mick's '51 rookie year was a hard one, and the pressures attending the off-season death of his father and indications he'd be replacing the retired Joe DiMaggio in centerfield were enormous. "So, back in '52, being Mickey Mantle wasn't all it was cracked up to be," Payne tells us. "This '52 Bowman card"--valued at between $1,500 and $2,500--"seems to capture the mood at the time." It's amazing how many other cards--from Aaron to Zernial--follow suit, and how much richer the game is simply for their presence. --Jeff Silverman

A Baby Boomer's Guide to Collecting Comic Books and Baseball Cards

A Collector's Guide to Baseball Cards (Wallace-Homestead Collector's Guide Series)

From Library Journal
Kirk presents a competent overview of one of the fastest growing hobbies. He examines the past and the feverish present as more card companies enter the market. He gives advice about building a collection. And he also discusses prices, sources, and terminology. Kirk provides some good reference advice, too, e.g., look under "collectibles" in the Yellow Pages for card dealers. A briefer and better written introduction is Donn Pearlman's Collecting Baseball Cards (Bonus Bks., 1987). Pearlman laces his account with interviews with experts. Still, this book is recommended for most popular collections. Kirk devotes ten double-columned pages to an assessment of baseball card price books and periodicals: a useful feature.
- Paul Kaplan, Highland Park P.L. , Ill.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

A House of Cards: Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture (American Culture...

From Kirkus Reviews
A study of baseball-card collecting in the upper Midwest becomes ``an ethnographic account of a local fan culture'' by dint of Bloom's wearisome academese. Bloom (American Studies/Dickinson Coll.) latches onto the perhaps obvious premise that ``white middle class men were the primary constituency that comprised the core of the baseball card collecting hobby'' and never lets go. His study covers the late 1980s into the 1990s, after the hobby had been thoroughly commercialized by home-shopping shows on cable television. A hobby with its origins in ``the nostalgia for innocence located in symbols of white middle-class boyhood'' became a big business back in the mid-1970s, when the number of serious collectors grew from 4,000 to 250,000. The Fleer Corporation's successful antitrust suit against Topps opened the door for other companies to produce cards. That, Bloom argues, set off the direct-marketing boom of the late 1980s; baseball cards became the product rather than the incentive to buy a product, such as cereal or gum or cupcakes. Bloom goes on to examine the dynamics of sports memorabilia shows, finding a class structure among the dealers and collectors in their baseball caps and beer-commercial T-shirts. Those he studied ``attempted to make a mass-media form meaningful within their collecting subculture.'' Numbing statements unfortunately blot out astute, ironic observations, such as Bloom's noting the annoyance show dealers have with children: What was once a boy's hobby now has little patience for childish enthusiasms. Not a collector himself, Bloom refers to his interviewees by first names only (``I first learned of Dave when I was interviewing Bob . . .''), thus giving their statements a confessional edge, like testimony at an AA meeting. Bloom's occasional cogent observations would be better served by levity and clarity. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Leverett T. [Terry] Smith, Society for American Baseball Research, Bibliography Committee Newsletter, April 1998: 98-2
Bloom sees nostalgia as potentially a positive force in our lives. The card collecting that we do results in the maintenance of a form of play in our adult lives. We are being active and creative rather that simply accepting adult conventions

But there are negative dimensions to nostalgia, too. Bloom points out that "nostalgia is more often a commentary of dissatisfaction with the present than it is an attempt to accurately understand the past" (p.87). In this context, Bloom finds nostalgia to be as destructive as it is liberating

Having begun the book by announcing himself as an involved observer, Bloom ends by underlining the tentativeness of his conclusions, saying "I see this book as initiating a dialogue about gender identities of men by critically examining an aspect of our culture", viz., baseball card collecting. I found Bloom's narrative informative and his interpretations thought-provoking. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Almanac of Baseball Cards and Collectables

Alphabetical Baseball Card Checklist (Sport Americana Alphabetical Baseball Card...

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