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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Here is a contest for all of us looking at the board on a nice Sunday morning. If these questions get answered too quickly (today), I will have another contest this coming week which will be "guess the final price", so even more folks can play. The winner will get this neat Ruth Stereoscope below....btw, there is a bonus question with this quiz. IF the winner guesses the bonus question right too, then they get $50 extra. You can decide if you want to wait and try to get the bonus or stick with the stereoscope. IF you try for the bonus and someone else answers all 3 questions before you then you lose both prizes. If they only answer the 1st 2 questions, then you still win as you were first. I will be the final decision on the contest in case of any issues. regards<br /><br />The questions are:<br /><br />1. Who published the pamphlet "Directory of the J.R Burdick Collection"<br /><br />2. Who wrote the introduction in this pamphlet?<br /><br />bonus question*3. What association do I have with the publisher?<br /><br />Good luck !!!!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1197821174.JPG"> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1197821190.JPG"> <br /><br /><br />edited questions to be exact....and changed the bonus from author to publisher

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>1. A. Hyatt Mayor<br />2. Mayor William O'Dwyer of NYC<br />3. The relationship I'm sure was "just friends"<br /><br />Max

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Very close but not quite.....email me privately if you have info I don't, or to discuss. (I won't give you the EXACT answer).... I have the Directory in hand.....

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>1. What person published the pamphlet?

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>1) Jefferson Burdick<br />2) A. Hyatt Mayor<br />3) secret love affair

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Gah! it's that double use of "mayor". I should learn how to read, or use google better.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Keep going....I will show you the answers when someone gets it. Ya'll are close. On the bonus question you will need to be a little more specific. When I tell the answers you will understand. SO, who was publisher on the 1st question...and on the 2nd who did the "Introduction"? ....it's in black and white when I show you....thanks for thinking. Also, what better way to do a question than snooping around info related to the grandfather of collecting? regards<br /><br />edited to add....I have edited the initial questions to be exact....I had to do this imo....I needed to make this a tad difficult...

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Leon<br />1. Metropolitan Museum of Art<br />2. A. Hyatt Mayor<br />3. Mr. Mayor is your second cousin, twice removed., or perhaps you have Burdick's personal copy of the Directory

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>The introduction was definitely Mayor; I don't see a publisher listed on my copy unless you consider it the Metropolitan Museum, however Burdick is credited with writing the Directory.<br /><br />And was I actually close on #3? It was a pure guess, of course. I have no idea.

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I almost want to give it to you for making me sit here and laugh...... Again, I do have the pamphlet so I think I know what the answers are....please do re-read the questions as I rephrased them to be more precise.

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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>1) Burdick and Mayor<br />2) Mayor

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>The publisher of my pamphlet, the original Directory, is not the Met...

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>The only thing I can guess for #1 is<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lulu.com" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.lulu.com</a> and your copy was published in 2007?

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>I bought my copy from the Museum many years ago but I guess it is a reprint. There is no publisher listed.

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>1. Yale University Press, then, which sometimes published Metropolitan books<br /><br />(or alternatively, Uncle Sal, from Gutenberg Street in the Bronx...<br /><br /><img src="http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/bigtenimages/gutenbergpress.jpg"> )

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1197823110.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>My final guess<br /><br />1. From the Harlequin Press<br /><br /><img src="http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/300/10/10957.jpg">

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>My copy has the identical cover. But I'm sure it's been reprinted. Is yours an original?

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I don't see a date on mine but from the feel of it and the look of it I would say it's 40'ish years old.....so it might be the original...

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Leon<br /><br />The publisher is "New York?"... attached is definitive proof from the Museum's on-line catalogue <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1197834270.JPG"> <br /><br /><br />edited scan size

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>I said <br /><br />"I will be the final decision on the contest in case of any issues. regards"<br /><br /><br />and as much as I want you to win it I don't think the city of New York published it....I see what you are saying but that is not the answer I am looking for....You can see my copy above. On the very 1st page, at the bottom, it has who published it.....regards<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>the LOC also says New York, but methinks that's not who leon is looking for...

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>(I think I'm going to have to work on finding the "sardonic" emoticon to insert in my emails)<br /><br />How many publishers can I think of?<br /><br />Simon & Schuster

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>The publisher is a person....very well known but only in certain circles....

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Max- I think Leon is saying the answers to his three questions are anything he wants them to be...I think he is running this contest like a police state! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Sir Edward Wharton Tigar

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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>1) Nostalgia Press<br />2) Mayor<br />3) They published your first article

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Posted By: <b>Rob Dewolf</b><p>1. Stephen King<br />2. Lee Behrens<br />3. A relation to both you and Peter C.<br /><br />Maybe this is what Leon is "looking for."

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Actually, I am "looking" for the answers. As I said, I will "show and tell" when/if someone gets them correct. If this was easy it would have been over immediately. It's tough on purpose....

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Rob<br /><br />Here is Stephen King's first baseball writing from the IO magazine , and I think it's one of his first published works<br /><br />(sorry for the small scan)<br /><br /><img src="http://www.stephen-king.de/zeitschriften/bilder/io70.jpeg"><br /><br />I couldn't find reference to Leon anywhere in there <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>There are no answers to this contest...it is a riddle wrapped in an enigma.

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Leon<br /><br />With all options exhausted, we are left with the inexorable conclusion that the publisher was the Trucker Boy of the Trucker Boy Find.

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Posted By: <b>Rob Dewolf</b><p>Max,<br /><br />Do you have a link you could share with more info on that? The scan is kind of small. <i>Tom Gordon</i> I'm guessing is his most mainstream baseball-related work, but I'd be interested in reading more.<br /><br />Thanks.

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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>It's going to be Seymour somebody since leon is "looking" and I'm guessing that this person taught Leon at some point (perhaps a college professor) and hence the reference to "show and tell."<br />I hope that helps somebody - I've reached the end of the internet...

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Rob<br /><br />Will do. I have a copy somewhere here that I will scan and send. If I recall correctly, King's story is only a few pages.<br /><br />Max

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>For those that have been on the board at least a few years it will all come back to you when you hear more.....

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>John DeFlores

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Preston Orem?

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Isn't Sir Edward Wharton Tigar Bertie Wooster's funny uncle, you know the one with a thing for waitresses, in the P. G. Wodehouse stories? Did Wodehouse create the Bruces as well? It's all starting to make sense.

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Walter Corson!!!

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Great guess....but not correct....

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>I'm out of guesses. I thought I got it right last time. You win! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p><br />Rob<br /><br />Here's a larger scan<br /><br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2249/2115734362_b51a65051b.jpg"><br /><br />One page poem by Stephen King called Brooklyn August

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Posted By: <b>Dave Hornish</b><p>1) Metropolitan Museum of Darwaings & Prints<br />2) Mayor & Burdick<br />3) Leon did some programming for the Met

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Frank Nagy.<br /><br />Sold Leon some cards when Leon was 15

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>Ya'll old timers (of the board) will smile when you eventually here the answer...

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Bill Heitman.<br /><br />(Max's philosophy in guessing: one million monkeys typing for one million years will eventually produce Shakespeare)

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Posted By: <b>Randy Trierweiler</b><p>Its not my old buddy Buck Barker is it? <br /><br />Randy

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Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>all good guesses....but not yet...this one is not impossible as the one from a long time ago was....If no one gets it another hour or so then I might give a hint....

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Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Charles Bray