I was flipping through the June 1982 issue of Trader Speaks when I came across this ad for The Official Pete Rose 1983 Price Guide…
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Scans, stories, and history from a lifetime of collecting hobby literature.
The Premier Issue of Baseball Cards was released in the Spring of 1981 as “the complete sports collectors’ magazine,” the team behind it introduced themselves…
I wish I had already been building the hobby library in 2005 when Frank Nagy’s personal collection of hobby publications was offered for sale. You…
The American Card Catalog is a foundational piece of the hobby. It was the first major attempt to categorize all known American card issues under…