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- 101 Ways to Make Money in the Trading-Card Market Right Now! Published in 1994, this book sat right on the line between the baseball card boom and crash, and it was full of advice aimed at investors and speculators.
- Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession. In the early 2000s, Dave Jamieson stumbled upon an experience that has become commonplace for many of us who grew up during the 1970s, 1980s, or even the 1990s.
- The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History’s Most Desired Baseball Card. Since before you ever opened your first pack of baseball cards, and likely since before your father opened his first pack, the most valuable and sought-after card in the world has been the T206 Honus Wagner tobacco issue from the early twentieth century.
- The Bubble Gum Card War: The Great Bowman & Topps Sets from 1948 to 1955. No force shaped the modern baseball card scene quite as profoundly as the battle between Bowman and Topps in the early 1950s.
- Beckett Baseball Card Guide 2019. Author: Beckett Media. Beckett was the original, definitive price guide. James Beckett began publishing baseball price guides in the 1970s, and eventually expanded into the other three major sports.
- The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading, and Bubble Gum Book. Author: Brendan Boyd and Fred Harris. The player references are outdated now by most standards, with my apologies to those of you who do recall the 1950’s clearly.
- Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told through Baseball Cards. Author: Josh Wilker. I enjoy a good memoir, particularly a person who is/was involved in the same career or who had the same interests as me.
- Game Faces. Author: Peter Devereaux. Game Faces is wonderful for the reason that it takes you back to the beginnings of baseball cards through the Library of Congress’s early baseball card collection (1887-1914) Li.
- The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book. It's somewhat dated (latest edition from 1991), but the book looks at some of the more obscure baseball cards from the 1950s featuring more than two hundred cards.
- The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife. A super fun read. Author Brad Balukjian orders a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards from eBay and aims to find each of the thirteen ex-ball players in the pack.
- The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card. A story about the infamous 'Wayne Gretzky' T206 Wagner card and how this one specific example became embroiled in one of the sketchiest paths to wealth known to the hobby.
- Card Sharks - How Upper Deck Turned a Child's Hobby into a High-Stakes, Billion-Dollar Business. Author Pete Williams tells the story of the Upper Deck Company and how they transformed the hobby in the early to mid 90's.
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Aug 4, 2015 · A match made in heaven: books about baseball cards. Here are the 13 best baseball card books published to date, ranging from card histories to the companies that produced them.
- Tom Bartsch
Dec 29, 2008 · For those interested in building a fine collection of sports memorabilia, from baseball cards to autographs to game-used bats, each subject is covered in great detail. Within each chapter, the best of the best has been selected by the experts.
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May 29, 2007 · The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card. Michael O'Keeffe, Teri Thompson. 3.71. 417 ratings51 reviews. Since its limited release just after the turn of the twentieth century, this American Tobacco cigarette card has beguiled and bedeviled collectors.
