Sad News -- Dan Dischley

[whiteymet]

Sad news indeed!

I knew Dan well back in the early to mid 70's. I wrote a series of articles on Topps test sets and other oddball releases for TTS. He worked very hard to keep the publication going.

Dan was a cop in "real" life. One of my most lasting memories of Dan had nothing to do with the hobby.

There was a "convention" as we called them then in Long Island and Dan took a group of us ( Gar Miller, Don Lepore, Bill Mastro, John Rumeriez, and I think Irv Lerner) out for the evening to what is now referred to as a Gentlemen's Club. It had a different name in those days.

He walked us in, flashed his badge and we got the best service of anyone there that night. I guess the club had to keep the cops on their good side!!

Cool guy

[cardinalcollector]

I'm really sorry to hear of the passing of Dan. As a very young collector in the early 1970s, it was always a thrill when The Trader Speaks showed up in the mailbox. It was one of the few outlets to get any information on the hobby for me. I met Dan at the 3rd National in St. Louis in 1982. Fascinating guy.

[tedzan]

Dan's contributions to the hobby and BaseBall are numerous. I love reading the SABR write-ups on various BB players.
Here is my favorite The Trader Speaks (TTS) issue. Depicted on it's cover is my favorite Sportscard memorabilia piece.
Great articles in this TTS by hobby legends of the late 1970's....Bill Heitman, Lew Lipset, George Lyons, and Tom Reid.

I acquired my Goodwin Champions Album in 1997. It is the finest example of Sportscards' Lithography ever produced.







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TED Z
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[akleinb611]

Sigh. There goes another key player from the hobby of my youth. He single-mindedly, without any thought of huge profits, published a fine magazine for well over ten years that benefitted the entire hobby. A good guy indeed.

For those who are too young to grasp the difference between the key hobby publications of the Seventies:

SCD was where you went if you wanted to sell stuff.

The Trader Speaks is where you went if you wanted to learn stuff.

[T206Collector]

I never knew Dan, except that he apparently once owned the rarest-backed signed T206 card I’ve ever heard of. Man, would I love to know where this signed T206 Snodgrass with Hindu back is today. I reached out to him six months ago, but never heard back.

This was his “For Sale” page from February 1976. $3 bucks? Wow.

[Leon]

It is always sad to lose a longtime hobby veteran and "influencer" (I don't really like that word but the new generation does.)
I never had the pleasure of meeting him. That said here is his Net54baseball registration....so he was a member and registered on my birthday almost exactly 10 yrs ago. RIP Dan....


From: cincy1976@aol.com [mailto:cincy1976@aol.com]
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The Trader Speaks
Dan Dischley
704-787-xxxx



And the First issue, introduction and back cover....






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[NiceDocter]

The overprint on the envelope says it all.......
FIRST CLASS all the way