Collectors Digest- Sept. 1965- Egan on collecting

[Leon]

One of the enjoyable things for me is to see how far our hobby has come. In doing that, studying the history of the hobby is a lot of fun. There are several great, old articles in our Archive section, for viewing anytime. Here is a hobby publication, Collectors Digest, from 1965. Richard Egan, arguably the father of baseball candy card collecting and author of the seminal book on the subject, wrote this article concerning the hobby. I was all of 4 yrs old when this was put out. It seems as T206s have gone up a bit too!!

[Stonepony]

Those old bulletins and digest are always fascinating, and give me incentive in my efforts to achieve time travel

[oaks1912]

Of the contributors listed, at least two of them are still around. Jim McConnell and Bill Klink are still active in the hobby

[Jason]

900 19th Century Cards for 300.00! I always enjoy reading these and seeing the prices back then.Thanks Leon

[tschock]

The good old days. Gotta love the prices. I take a few of those Broad Leafs, your choice.

[Ease]

...note that gold bordered t cards were 25 cents more than white borders. Nowadays T205s get no love, but they must have then.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by oaks1912

Of the contributors listed, at least two of them are still around. Jim McConnell and Bill Klink are still active in the hobby

It's amazing to me how many folks have been doing this for so long. Every time I think I am going to get burnt out I think about these type folks. We have quite a few that are on our board that have been doing it a long time too. I know Steve Mitchell (hi Stephen) has been at it longer than most. Don't know how often he reads but I know he has posted some.

[ullmandds]

It was a lot easier to remain interested 20-30 yrs ago...let alone 50-70 as it took decades to acquire the knowledge you can gain online these days in a weekend.

When I was collecting vintage in my early 20's I had never even seen most less common issues in person.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

It was a lot easier to remain interested 20-30 yrs ago...let alone 50-70 as it took decades to acquire the knowledge you can gain online these days in a weekend.

When I was collecting vintage in my early 20's I had never even seen most less common issues in person.

And has been mentioned elsewhere, the cards that are now really "rare" are just that. I am sure back in the day, pre-internet, seeing a Darby Chocolate or Washington Times card would be akin to seeing Haley's comet. Now, not that big of a deal.

[SteveMitchell]

Originally Posted by Leon

It's amazing to me how many folks have been doing this for so long. Every time I think I am going to get burnt out I think about these type folks. We have quite a few that are on our board that have been doing it a long time too. I know Steve Mitchell (hi Stephen) has been at it longer than most. Don't know how often he reads but I know he has posted some.

Thanks, Leon, but some of us who have been hanging around the hobby for a few years aren't so old. (At least we don't think so - regardless of number of birthdays passed.)

When I saw another poster ask about seeing the Paul Frisz story, I thought we might have published something in Sports Scoop but a quick search did not turn up anything except this photo (Aug./Sep. 1973) of Mr. Frisz with the Pat Quinn - father of another Net54baseball.com poster, Tony Quinn (quinnsryche). Now, speaking of oldtimers, Pat has been actively publishing his sports memorabilia auction continuously for more than 40 years!

[Jay Wolt]

Love these threads and subsequent posts