Who are the 10 most important collectors in hobby history

[rdixon1208]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Tom- Bruce refers to himself in the first person plural. When he says "we" he means "I."

Which is about the most annoying thing I've ever read.

[Orioles1954]

We rank myself in the top 10.

[HRBAKER]

Us am confused by all of this.

[tbob]

I have to add Mark Macrae and Lionel Carter.
How can you have a top 10 without these two? Mark knows more about PCL cards than anyone in the hobby and has always been willing to share his knowledge. Carter was a hobby pioneer. 'Nuff said.

Hi T Bob

Lionel Carter was Number 5 on our list

Happy Labor Day !

Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List

[Chris-Counts]

I'm not sure he would qualify as a collector, and from my dealings with him, I'm not even sure he liked cards, but it seems like there has to be a place on the list for Goodwin Goldfaden. Does he qualify as the first card dealer ever?

[wake.up.the.echoes]

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[Hot Springs Bathers]

In the honorable mention category I would have to add John England. When he sold his collection to Fritsch it took three North American moving vans according to the old SCD story on the sale to move it to Wisconsin.

During a phone visit with Larry he told me that his personal collection more than doubled with the purchase.

After years of buying trips to John I would have never known. He did put me in touch with Wharton-Tigar when I told him I would like to find some old tennis cards back in the late 70s. That was a fun experience!

[tbob]

Originally Posted by Yankeefan51

Hi T Bob

Lionel Carter was Number 5 on our list

Happy Labor Day !

Bruce Dorskind
America's Toughest Want List

Thanks Bruce, you too. I somehow missed Carter's name, long day at work

We made a mistake in not including Burdick- in fact he was on the top of a list of 50 collectors who served as our short list

We agree that Larry Fritsch (although we only knew Larry as a dealer more than as a collector) and Don MacPherson should be somewhere in top 10-15

Again one of the criteria that we used was contribution to the hobby.

As for more other collectors who are alive and kicking (or recently deceased) albeit,not all of them are active, our list would includes

Jim Blumenthal
John Buonaguidi
Tom Collier (deceased- we think)
Mark Cooper
Ken Felden- best memorabilia collection we ever saw
Marshall Fogel
Larry Fritsch
Dan Gantt
Gerry Glasser
Dennis Goldstein
Jim Horne
Scott Ireland
John Kasmaian
Larry Kelley
Terry Knouse
Lew Lipset
Rob Lifson
George Lyons (now deceased)
Marc MacRae
Dan McKee
Charlie Merkel
Joe Michaelowitz
Gar Miller
Jay Miller
Lew Newman
Bob Richardson
Corey Shanus
Barry Sloate
Don Spence
Don Stenibach (now deceased)
Robert Thing

[Cooptown]

I know Halper has some questionability arise to some of the items, but what exactly is the question? Forged jerseys? Autographs? Cards?

[lentel]

Originally Posted by rdixon1208

Which is about the most annoying thing I've ever read.

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Tom- Bruce refers to himself in the first person plural. When he says "we" he means "I."

would that be considered normal or slightly askew

[2dueces]

We receive so much pleasure tooting our own horn that someday we may actually be the band.