What is the best bb card literature?

[martyogelvie]

What, no mention of; "The Card" ?

[rainier2004]

Encyclopedia is ordered.

What is "the card"? Also, Ive heard about the best 200 cards in the industry or somehting to that effect...I know the author is a board member on here as well. I have a copy of the 1967 ACC, but I dont get that much from it.

I have a zeenut book as well by jim horne, but as cool as they are i think im going to stay away from the zeenuts...so i actually have one to sell if any interest?

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by rainier2004

What is "the card"?

The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card by Michael O'keeffe and Teri Thompson.

[FrankWakefield]

I agree with the ACC and would add it as #8 on the list. When you first get one you'd think that it's quaint, but why do you need it... and you don't. But eventually you'll want to look at the little cards from a grander perspective. The ACC gets you there.

I have the Slocum book. It's ok. I haven't looked inside the covers in maybe 4 years.

I read The Card. Glad I read it. The author got a few of his facts wrong, and some of his inferences and beliefs are wrong. While entertaining, it would be misleading for someone who doesn't know a right smart about old cards. If someone new to old cards reads that book they should consider it fiction.

[tedzan]

DITTO....to many of the books already recommended here ( ACC, Lipset's Encyclopedia, Scot Reader's "Inside T206" )....and, I will add this book
to the list for it's entertaining value. Especially, the chapter titled "This Kid Is Going to Make It", which focuses on Sy Berger (head of the Topps
Chewing Gum, Inc.).

If you love Baseball of the 1950's - 1960's and BB cards of that era, you will find this book very, very interesting.


TED Z

[Hot Springs Bathers]

A very nice reference piece for those interested in the history of cards and for those that often run upon odd issues would be an old issue of the London Cigarette Card Company's annual Tobacco Catalogue and its' companion the Trade Card Catalogue.

These list every worldwide issue from the 1800's on through whatever issue you can pick up. Very brief despcription listing issuer, size of card and number in set. No listings of individual cards in each set though. Few photos.

I don't know if they still offer printed catalogues or not but they do have an active website that I can't seem to search very well. Their chief competitor in the UK is the Murray Card Co. but I never found their catalogues quite as informative.

Also Beckett offered a non-sports big book a number of years ago that I have refered to a thousand times over the years including last week for some boxers and indian cards I ran across.

All of these should be very cheap when found and nice to have on the shelf.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

Their chief competitor in the UK is the Murray Card Co. but I never found their catalogues quite as informative.

Murray's is shutting down in two weeks:

http://www.murraycards.com/index.aspx

[Big Ben]

Originally Posted by rainier2004

Encyclopedia is ordered.

What is "the card"? Also, Ive heard about the best 200 cards in the industry or somehting to that effect...I know the author is a board member on here as well. I have a copy of the 1967 ACC, but I dont get that much from it.

I have a zeenut book as well by jim horne, but as cool as they are i think im going to stay away from the zeenuts...so i actually have one to sell if any interest?

IMO, The Card is a really good read even for a person who is not in the hobby.

[atx840]

Lots of great info here,

The Card was a great vacation read, learned quite a bit about the history of the one card.

I am enjoying Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession.

[quinnsryche]

Just a heads up, I have the Topps and OJ books for sale in the B/S/T memorabilia section if anyone is interested. Thanks!