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Baseball Cards in the Publishing Spotlight
2010 was a pretty good year for books that had baseball cards in them and weren’t considered price guides.
Heck, a rare baseball card was even the focal point of a movie starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, but it was refreshing to see vintage cardboard in a new light.
Josh Wilker’s critically well received Cardboard Gods was more about growing up and his relationships with family than it was about the cards he collected as a youngster, but the cards still served as the focal point.* The book was an outgrowth of his popular blog.
Die-hard collectors probably fell a little harder for Mint Condition, a book about the history of baseball cards and some of the major players in the hobby.
Dave Jamieson was a collector as a youth and remained fascinated by the hobby’s rapid growth throughout the 1980s and early 90s as well as the history behind it all.* He covered everything from early tobacco to modern era business in the book.
We published excerpts earlier this year and both books got a significant amount of national attention.* In fact, both writers are still getting interview requests from time to time as the year draws to a close.
Bruce Markusen did a recent Q&A with Jamieson for Hardball Times.* You can read it here.
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Heck, a rare baseball card was even the focal point of a movie starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, but it was refreshing to see vintage cardboard in a new light.Josh Wilker’s critically well received Cardboard Gods was more about growing up and his relationships with family than it was about the cards he collected as a youngster, but the cards still served as the focal point.* The book was an outgrowth of his popular blog.
Die-hard collectors probably fell a little harder for Mint Condition, a book about the history of baseball cards and some of the major players in the hobby.Dave Jamieson was a collector as a youth and remained fascinated by the hobby’s rapid growth throughout the 1980s and early 90s as well as the history behind it all.* He covered everything from early tobacco to modern era business in the book.
We published excerpts earlier this year and both books got a significant amount of national attention.* In fact, both writers are still getting interview requests from time to time as the year draws to a close.
Bruce Markusen did a recent Q&A with Jamieson for Hardball Times.* You can read it here.
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