Any other baseball book collectors out there?

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Posted By: Max Weder

Tom

Nice to see another book collector join the forum. I think we've done a few ebay transactions over the years.

I agree with you on Barry's article; there certainly have been a shortage of articles on baseball books which provide us with illustrations of what the books look like. I'm (slowly) trying to scan my collection, as well as saving jpgs of books from auctions, even if I don't win the auction.

Books are unlike cards in that most card images are readily available from a number of sources, even if they are expensive. I don't think there is one spot on the web similar to the LOC website for cards or the baseball sheet music site. Some early books are readily available (Spink, Spalding) and the images are well known; others only show up rarely, and dust jackets are all but unknown (Busting Em dj , for example)

Max