November 18, 2021: Fall Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/18/2021
Here’s a chance to relive the giddy days that marked the furious expansion of the baseball-card collecting hobby through the 1970s and early 1980s with a massive array of important collectors magazines and newsletters that helped to propel that historic 15-year span. The lineup includes many of the key editions of pubs well known even to modern hobbyists, names like The Trader Speaks, Sports Scoop, Baseball Card News, Tuff Stuff and Sports Collectors News. The offered group is in broadly Very Good to Excellent condition, with some above the range. The lineup: The Trader Speaks (22), including May, July, August, and December (2) of 1969 – January, February, March, April and June (2) of 1970 – July, August, September, October (2) and November of 1972 – June and August of 1973 – and July and September of 1981; Sports Scoop (34) – from February 1973 through October 1974 missing three issues, with duplicates from 1973 (17) and 1974 (3); The Ballcard Collector October 1972; The Sport Hobbyist Fall 1972; Chicagoland Collectors Association Baseball Nostalgia Expo Program from June 1975; Collectors Quarterly Winter 1975; Sports Collectors News (19) – from 1977-78, Volumes 98, 109, 110 (2), 111, 112 (2), 113 (3), 114, 115, 117 (2), 118, 119, 120, 122 and 123; The Trading News March 1976 Vol. No. 1, Issue No. 1; Baseball Card News 1982 Volume No. 1 and 2; and Tuff Stuff 1984 No. 5.
1969-84 Treasure Trove of Card Collecting Publications (82)
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