˜Theœ great american Baseball card
Author: Brendan C. Boyd
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780446810234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Brendan C. Boyd
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780446810234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Brendan C. Boyd
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780316104296
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Outlet
Publisher:
Published: 1985-08-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780517437537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dave Jamieson
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0802197159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“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
Author: John Bloom
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781452900254
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mike Payne
Publisher: Beckett Publications
Published: 1999-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781887432801
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a historical tribute to three hundred cards of stars and superstars who have made their marks on the collecting world and on the game of baseball.
Author: Josh Wilker
Publisher: Seven Footer Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781934734162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wilker marks the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. He captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game.
Author: Dean Hanley
Publisher:
Published: 2012-07-27
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780983543213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Devereaux
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 158834634X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A charming gift book showcasing baseball cards from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries alongside photos from the early days of the nation's beloved pastime Game Faces showcases rare and colorful baseball cards from the Library of Congress's Benjamin K. Edwards Collection, bringing to life an era of American history that saw the game explode in popularity. Marrying gems from the collection's 2,100 baseball cards to images of American life from 1887 to 1914, the book also offers engaging insights into the players and the game, giving readers an intimate view of both baseball's development and American culture at the turn of the twentieth century. The book highlights cards depicting many of the game's first stars--including Ty Cobb, Cy Young, and Christy Mathewson--as well as less widely known figures, shown with extravagant ornamentation and boldly juxtaposed colors that render the cards works of art in their own right. Game Faces is a rich, engrossing history of the baseball card and the ways that it has illustrated and influenced American culture as a whole. It is a must-have for those who love baseball.
Author: Bert Randolph Sugar
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1982-08-01
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13: 0486243087
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →83 Big Leaguers from 1909-69, on facsimile baseball cards. Hubbell, Dean, Spahn, Brock, many others; also advertising, info. No duplications.