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Posted By: Geno

Is there any online resource that allows us to read the articles in the pre-war Baseball Magazine? I'm not sure what dates it ran through, but somewhere in the 1910's would be cool to read through...

Thanks!
Geno

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Posted By: barrysloate

Baseball Magazine was published between 1908 and 1957, then had a short but unsuccessful revival in 1964-65. There was a time where I, along with a couple of partners, tried to put the whole run on CD. We owned the rights to a version on microfiche, but it was impossible to get it clear enough to easily read.

That microfiche is with the Hall of Fame, and I believe some effort was made to make the whole run available for free online. Don't know if that project ever got off the ground.

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Barry, that was one fine noble cause you had, there. I'd love to see a legible version on a CD.

If that gets done, then it would be great to have an index assembled.


Frank W.

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Posted By: Bob Donaldson

Geno

Go here and click on search http://www.la84foundation.org/

Looks like they have some magazines.

take care

Bob

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Posted By: barrysloate

Frank- in 1990 a group of us bought a huge book and publication collection, the kind of collection I will probably never see again. We had a virtually complete run of Baseball Magazine. The Hall of Fame asked if they could borrow the set to microfilm, and of course we agreed.

In retrospect, we should have thought that out better because microfilm was already becoming obsolete. We had visions for years of issuing the complete set and selling it, but it never worked out. After ten years of trying we finally gave up.

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Posted By: Geno

Bob hit the nail on the head! I just went to the Digital Archive search and typed in "Cobb." I got a bunch of stuff like "Ty Cobb From the Viewpoint of a National Leaguer" by John Evers. "Joss" got me an article on his benefit game that raised $12,914.60 - Great stuff!

Take Care,
Geno

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Posted By: Jeff O

If you're a SABR member, you can order reels of microfilm from their research library three at a time and view them at your local library. There are roughly 2-3 years worth of issues per reel.

Jeff

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Posted By: Denny Walsh

Bob, Barry & All,
I would of Happily paid you for this information
I'm gonna down load as much of these Magizines as possible to bring them with my to Iraq! WoW!!! What a Deal....
Barry, I'm surprized that you gave up on your idea. Heck, after ONLY 10 YEARS? (Place Sarcastic Smiley right here!) I imagine you as a "I Never Quit Kinda Guy". But then again, even Seinfeld had to find his out at the right time!

So In the end, Bob saves the Day! "Thanks Bob".........

Life's Grand,
Denny Walsh

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Bob, that is a useful site. Thanks for posting that.

Frank.

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Posted By: sean

I just wish they had post 1920 baseball magazines

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Posted By: barrysloate

Denny- we made a sample CD from the microfilm and it was blurry and very difficult to read. We knew nobody would buy that. All we could do is make more microfiche copies, and who has a microfiche reader in his office?

We wanted it to be profitable since it would have been a fairly big project with a significant outlay of seed money, and in the end we didn't think we could make it work.

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Posted By: Bob Donaldson

"I'm gonna down load as much of these Magizines as possible to bring them with my to Iraq! WoW!!! What a Deal...."

Denny,

Glad to be of service. Best wishes on your deployment to Iraq!

Bob