Download or read book The Book of Baseball Cards 1994 written by Consumer Guide and published by Consumer Guide Books. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every fan--whether novice or advanced collector--should have this single-source reference guide with its in-depth profiles of more than 600 players (including complete 1993 and lifetime stats), insider's price and value guide, full-color photographs of more than 2,000 new cards, and more.
Download or read book The Official Price Guide to Baseball Cards 1994 written by James Beckett and published by House of Collectibles. This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the huge and thriving audience of dedicated baseball card collectors continues to grow, so do the sales of this, the #1 recognized source for prices and the most valuable information from the nation's most trusted expert. Beckett's Baseball Card Monthly magazine reaches over three million readers each month.
Download or read book Baseball Card Price Guide 1994 written by Consumer Guide and published by Consumer Guide Books. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fabulous color photographs complement extensive card lists and current card values of today's hottest rookies along with legends from the past. Collectors can review the values of more than 30,000 cards and quickly determine the most valuable cards from each era. Includes such Hall of Famers as Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente, and others.
Download or read book Mint Condition written by Dave Jamieson and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An entertaining history of baseball cards . . . An engaging book on a narrow but fascinating topic.” —The Washington Post When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson’s parents sold his childhood home a few years ago, he rediscovered a prized boyhood possession: his baseball card collection. Now was the time to cash in on the “investments” of his youth. But all the card shops had closed, and cards were selling for next to nothing online. What had happened? In Mint Condition, his fascinating, eye-opening, endlessly entertaining book, Jamieson finds the answer by tracing the complete story of this beloved piece of American childhood. Picture cards had long been used for advertising, but after the Civil War, tobacco companies started slipping them into cigarette packs as collector’s items. Before long, the cards were wagging the cigarettes. In the 1930s, cards helped gum and candy makers survive the Great Depression. In the 1960s, royalties from cards helped transform the baseball players association into one of the country’s most powerful unions, dramatically altering the game. In the eighties and nineties, cards went through a spectacular bubble, becoming a billion-dollar-a-year industry before all but disappearing, surviving today as the rarified preserve of adult collectors. Mint Condition is charming, original history brimming with colorful characters, sure to delight baseball fans and collectors. “Jamieson explores the history of card collecting through an entertaining cast of characters . . . For anyone who can recall being excited to rip open their newest pack of cards, Mint Condition is a treat.” —Forbes
Download or read book Baseball written by Geoffrey C. Ward and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1994 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 500 photographs -- Introduction by Roger Angell -- Essays by Thomas Boswell, Robert W. Creamer, Gerald Early, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bill James, David Lamb, Daniel Okrent, John Thorn, George E Will -- And featuring an interview with Buck O'Neil
Download or read book A Kid s Guide to Collecting Baseball Cards written by Casey Childress and published by Harbinger House. This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains to kids how to start, build, and care for a baseball card collection.
Download or read book Hall of Name written by Diane Firstman and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical profiles and fun factoids of 100 of the most memorable names in baseball history. The names I'm profiling here are divided into four groups (admittedly a few of these players could qualify for more than one category):?Baseball Poets/Men of (Few Different) Letters: Players with rhyming names and/or alliterative names.?Dirty Names Done Dirt Cheap: Players with scatological or otherwise naughty names.?Sounds Good to Me: Players with mellifluous/melodious names.?No Focus Group Convened: Players whose names don't fall into one of the prior three categories, or ones that might involve us questioning the intentions of the player's parents.Each player profile within has the following:?general demographic information (name they played under, their full name at birth, date of birth/death, years active in the majors, positions played, etc.)?etymology/definition of each part of their given name?baseball biography (generally, how they made it to the majors, what they did while they were there)?best day (a recap of a great day in their major league career)?the wonder of his name (why his name is memorable to me/us)?not to be confused with (names that sound and/or look like the player's name)?fun anagrams (anagrams of their given names, just because I can)?ephemera (factoids, tidbits, trivia about the player, details regarding their parents, their family and their life after baseball)
Download or read book Most Valuable Baseball Cards written by Christopher Benjamin and published by Perigee. This book was released on 1990 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows, describes, and lists the current value of antique baseball cards, and includes background information about players, card manufacturers, and card series
Download or read book Sotheby s New York written by Sotheby's (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards written by Sports Collectors Digest and published by . This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive baseball card price guide covers everything from the early tobacco cards in 1886 through new issues of 1994. Includes more than 150,000 cards and 450,000 prices. More than 2,500 photos of cards--fronts and backs--complement pricing.
Download or read book A Game of Failure written by Ryan Eckert and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 12th, 1994, the Major League Baseball Players Association directed its members to go on strike, ultimately leading to cancellation of both the remainder of the 1994 baseball season and the 1994 World Series. The 232-day saga that ensued, and its fallout, would ultimately amount to the most financially and emotionally destructive episode in the history of American professional sports. This book examines the 1994 strike from all angles, including its long-stemming origins to its beginnings, the course taken by events throughout its nine-month duration, and evolving popular reactions throughout. It will consider the eventual mediation and resolution, and what the strike meant in both the short- and long-term for Major League Baseball and the relationship between the sport and American culture. The labor dispute that culminated in 1994's strike and cancelled World Series was hardly the first dispute between players and owners in Baseball, but rather can be seen as a culmination of an extended period of labor unrest throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Here we see the "final showdown" in the owners' long-standing efforts to break the union; both sides would eventually accept concessions and, finally, the result would be normalization of the previous imbalance of power. Such a dramatic course correction would prove to have negative consequences for the public perceptions of both players and owners. Unlike previous labor disputes, 1994 was met with overwhelming feelings of resentment and betrayal aimed at both sides. Consequently, the 1994-95 strike was definitive in establishing the American public's modern conception of the relationship among professional athletes, team owners, and fans.
Download or read book Great book of baseball cards written by Tom Owens and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide written by James Beckett and published by Edgewater Books. This book was released on 1988-03 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wax Pack written by Brad Balukjian and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected--a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell premise: he took a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 (the first year he collected cards), opened it, chewed the nearly thirty-year-old gum inside, gagged, and then embarked on a quest to find all the players in the pack. Absurd, maybe, but true. He took this trip solo in the summer of 2015, spanning 11,341 miles through thirty states in forty-eight days. Balukjian actively engaged with his subjects--taking a hitting lesson from Rance Mulliniks, watching kung fu movies with Garry Templeton, and going to the zoo with Don Carman. In the process of finding all the players but one, he discovered an astonishing range of experiences and untold stories in their post-baseball lives, and he realized that we all have more in common with ballplayers than we think. While crisscrossing the country, Balukjian retraced his own past, reconnecting with lost loves and coming to terms with his lifelong battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Alternately elegiac and uplifting, The Wax Pack is part baseball nostalgia, part road trip travelogue, and all heart, a reminder that greatness is not found in the stats on the backs of baseball cards but in the personal stories of the men on the front of them.
Download or read book Baseball Card Price Guide written by James Beckett and published by Edgewater Books Distribution. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cardboard Gods written by Josh Wilker and published by Seven Footer Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilker marks the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. He captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game.
Download or read book Baseball Legends of All Time written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents some of baseball's greatest players.
