Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (730 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B011402JM6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 119 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Daniel Rosenberg said Highly recommended for anyone interested in the hobby. What a well-researched and nicely-written book. I've been collecting baseball cards since the 1970s, and I learned a lot reading this page-turner. I'd recommend it for anyone who's interested in the hobby. Interestingly, the author comes to the same conclusion I reached about the baseball card industry over a decade ago: It needs to go back to the way it was, with fewer sets, fewer "insert" cards and cheaper prices. And bring back the bu. This book is graded GEM MINT/PRISTINE 10!!! Marlin T. Carlson Wow - if you want to be schooled in the history of baseball/trading cards from their inception: tobacco cards, Cracker Jack cards, bubble gum cards, etc., this book will have you mesmerized! The history of cards is well described in chronological order so its provides a smooth transition from one generation to the next from vintage cards through the "Junk Wax" era to the modern day! We highly recommend you read "Mint Condition" if you en. "Profiting From The Collector's Disease" according to Bill Dolworth. This is a wonderful book on many different levels. I was surprised to learn that baseball cards have been in existence since the 1860s. The book explores, in a very entertaining way, the marketing of cigarettes and gum by packaging them with collectible cards; images of baseball players being by far the most popular. The author also tells fascinating stories of the men who significantly contributed to the hobby: the entrepreneurs, the co
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. 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. Mint Condition is charming original history brimming with colorful characters, sure to delight baseball fans and collectors.. 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. But all the card shops had closed, and cards were selling for next to nothing online. 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. Now was the time to cash in on the investments of his youth. Before long the cards were wagging the cigarettes. In the 1930s cards helped gum and candy makers survive the Great Depression. In the '80s and '90s, cards went through a spectacular bubble, becoming a billion-dollar-a-year industry before all but disap