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Beckett offers a very straightforward product. Aside from the team-by-team analysis, the only additional articles deal with the top ten free agent signings (Mark Teixeira leads the list) and ten worst off-season moves, which includes bad trades and poor acquisitions (Nick Swisher’s departure from the White Sox heads this one). There’s also a small 2008 [...]
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Joe Orlando, author of Collecting Sports Legends: The Ultimate Hobby Guide (Zyrus Publishing) spent a few minutes with the Bookshelf discussing the state of the memorabilia industry (surprisingly healthy at the high end) and the difficulty in choosing what to focus on as a collector. [audio http://www.ronkaplansbaseballbookshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/057joeorlando04022009.mp3]
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I had this little comic book, an insert that came in packs of 1970 Topps cards. I also had coins, deckle-edged cards, miniposter, “playing” cards, all premiums in sets for others years. “Had” is the operative word. Can’t even blame my mother for tossing them away. This was my fault. had all the extras in [...]
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Why were those naughty words written on the knob of Billy Ripken’s bat in his 1989 Fleer card? More on the card here, from CNBC.
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With these tough economic times, I wonder if there’s been a run of card collectors trying to unload their little pieces of cardboard. For those of you interested, here’s a piece describing the appraisal process and another on the determination of “book value.”
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If you can’t keep track of this, you don’t deserve to have ‘em…
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I’ve written about this before, but The Wall Street Journal ran another story about kids ‘n cards from generations past. The little fools without the foresight to see how much money was to be made from keeping those baseball cards in pristine condition. Sorry, kid, you’ll have to go to a commuter college, Daddy din’t [...]
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To borrow a phrase from the late Phil Rizzuto. From AmericanChronicle.com: …the Upper Deck Company has released the largest baseball trading card set ever assembled in tribute to the world-renowned sports shrine. The “Yankee Stadium Legacy” (YSL) collection is a 6,661-card compilation chronicling every single New York Yankees home game ever played at the current [...]
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As a kid I collected baseball cards. As a kid in the 60s and 70s, I never thought of them as investments so I subjected them to all sorts of indignities: writing on them, taping over the team names when the player was traded, pasting them to oaktag for school projects (I could have retired [...]
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Upper Deck is opening a new store tomorrow (Feb. 22) in Huntington Beach. There’s even a 25%-off coupon! And Steve Garvey will be on hand on Feb. 23 to sign autographs. (Luke Walton will be there for the Grand Opening, but he’s just a basketball player.)
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Interesting piece on the 2008 set from the japanesebaseballcards blog.
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Politicians will say anything for your support. Look at Hillary Clinton, claiming to be a lifelong fan of several franchises, including the Cubs and the Yankees. Topps commemorates former presidential hopeful — and devout Yankee fan — Rudy Giuliani with a “faux card,” according to this item posted Feb. 5 by Sports Illustrated. On the [...]
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From “The Infield Dirt” column on Sports Collector Digest‘s Web site, an interesting suggestion on a new arts and crafts project. I wrote a note to the writer, T.S. O’Connell, asking for a picture of the item.
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Since we’re heading into awards season, this seemed appropriate:The Gummies, picking the best and worst baseball card-related items of the year. Unfortunately, there’s no explanation for the picks, nor a list of the other nominees that were in the running.
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In my "day job," I'm the features and sports editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper. I'm also the editor of the Bibliography Committee Newsletter for the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
I did a piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
Turning Two: My Journey to the Top of the World and Back with the New York Mets, by Bud Harrelson with Phil Pepe
Deadball: A Metaphysical Baseball Novel
Congratulations to Scott P. of Rochester, NY, winner of the most recent Facebook Fan drawing, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game
Next up: Hit by Pitch: Ray Chapman, Carl Mays and the Fatal Fastball
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My article on Yankees Fantasy Camp appears in the current issue of Broadside Bombers.
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets' 1969 post-season appears in
What I just read:
Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
Amazingly sensitive and surprisingly literate effort by Dickey and Coffey. A
Turning Two: My Journey to the Top of the World and Back with the New York Mets
A serviceable, nostalgic look at the Amazin's in their heyday. B
Calico Joe
Grisham's first baseball novel is emotional, if a bit predictable. B
What I'm reading now
Extra Innings
Damn Yankees: Twenty-Four Major League Writers on the World's Most Loved (and Hated) Team
What's next:
Butterfly Winter
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