Who are the 10 most important collectors in hobby history

[GoSoxBoSox]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Bill Haber worked for Topps.I deem him one of the more important collectors to our hobby.

Thanks for that info. It's amazing to me the think about how dedicated these men were in a time were you had to be part detective, record keeper, filing clerk, letter writer, advertisement author, etc. to even understand what was out there. They also had be a clearing house, I'm sure, accepting all kinds of material in to build their sets, make trades, and sell the unwanted items. It's so different from what we do today as collectors is hard to imagine all of the duties they had to undertake. Each must have spent most of their lives locked alone in a room.

[refz]

weres mr mint on this list?

[oldjudge]

Mr Mint was not a collector

[GoSoxBoSox]

Al Rosen is a revolving door for cards. A rather pushy one at that who doesn't belong on a list like this. IMO.

[FrankWakefield]

Mr Mint was a character, flashy, he churned lots of money and lots of cards. He didn't really do anything that I perceive as important for the hobby. A presence in the hobby, yes. Important in the history of the hobby, no.

[2dueces]

This thread has all the earmarks of the typical downward spiral expected for a self serving thread. Nothing new here and the act gets quite old. At first they were entertaining but like any comic if they don't come up with new material eventually the audience stops showing up. Sad really.

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by 2dueces

This thread has all the earmarks of the typical downward spiral expected for a self serving thread. Nothing new here and the act gets quite old. At first they were entertaining but like any comic if they don't come up with new material eventually the audience stops showing up. Sad really.

Joe, some of us understand your post and agree.

[FrankWakefield]

Mr. Lipset lists Mr. Haber in his credits in vol 3 of his Encyclopedia, (I just came across one while digging for an old Baseball Encyclopedia, which I didn't find).

And here's a link about Red Morgan. It mentions Mr. Haber's efforts in the article, and this was typical of what he did... he quietly went about filling in the blanks, the missing information, in what we now look at and take for granted. He gave us a lot.

http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?...d=9977&bid=417


And Joe, I really don't understand your post.

[Wite3]

Anyone find the image of Bruce sitting in his apartment surrounded by his collection watching Jerry Springer as funny (or disturbing) as I do?