Magazines & Grading

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Hey Steve,

I have been collecting Magazines with Baseball covers for over 30 years now and find the pursuit of new additions to the collection Great Fun and very Challenging!!

I mainly collect Life, Look, Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Color, Colliers Etc. There are some really nice covers but condition can be a challenge! I currently have over 400 magazines all with related baseball covers and only a handful are without mailing labels, and what I would consider Excellent+ condition.

As far as getting some graded if they are in at least Excellent condition with no mailing label then it might be worth getting a couple of the rarer issues graded. I agree that Magazine collecting is kinda a under appreciated part of our hobby, but I believe that an April 23, 1949 issue of Saturday Evening Post magazine with the Rain Delay cover by Norman Rockwell (Photo attached) is just a rare if not more that many vintage baseball cards!!

Anyway just my 2 cents!! Attached is a photo of one of my Favorites!!

Rich