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Posted By: Joseph

In terms of historical interest, for me nothing beats an old baseball scrapbook assembled by a fan of, say, the Detroit Tigers in the 1930s. Years ago, I was an avid and active collector of such items and have a couple hundred of them. Occasionally the books would have ticket stubs and such, but for the most part, they were newspaper clippings which I've spent many hours persusing. Fascinating stuff, which would only be available in many cases by a trip to a library in, say, Detroit.

Value? Generally the joy and info one gets is the real value. Pictures--Sunday color supplement photos--might be worth a bit more--and obviously stubs and cards more than that--but I'd say the average price I paid for one was somewhere between 10 and 20 bucks. Frankly, there's a part of me that kinda wishes the place where they are housed would burn down.