Several years ago Arthur Zillante reviewed a few baseball books for SABR’s Baseball Research Journal. You can read his review here. Feel free to “comment” about these books and others.
– Mark
Autographed cards
A friend of mine is trying to put together a complete set of autographed 1968s (at least I think they are 1968s). Its something that I always wondered about -how does anyone chase down the gold insert sets, or the Target Red sets, or get a full autographed set?
Obviously money is a key player, but it is time and dedication well beyond opening pack after pack to collate a 2016 set.
I was amazed to discover you could collect *this autographed set:
http://www.sportsartifacts.com/aagpblcards.html
Impressive.
Series on Topps Baseball Cards
Partly to test out our brand new blog (for SABR’s Baseball Cards committee), I thought I would provide links to a series of articles I wrote in the spring of 2016 on Topps baseball cards. Here they are.
April 7. Part 1: Introduction.
April 14. Part 2: Taking Over. (focus on 1956-57)
April 21. Part 3: Innovative Subsets. (focus on 1958-61)
April 28. Part 4: Men Without Hats. (focus on 1962-63)
May 5. Part 5: Rookie Cards. (focus on 1964-67)
May 12. Part 6: Conflict. (focus on 1968-69)
May 19. Part 7: Collecting. (focus on 1970-71)
May 26. Part 8: Grey Backs. (focus on 1972-75)
June 2. Part 9: Competition. (focus on 1976-80)
June 9. Part 10: The Best of the Best.
More posts like this coming.
— Mark Armour
SABR's Baseball Cards Research Committee 