A Collector's Guide to Baseball Cards (WALLACE-HOMESTEAD COLLECTOR'S GUIDE SERIES) - Softcover

Kirk, Troy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870695339 ISBN 13: 9780870695339

Publisher: Wallace-Homestead Book Co, 1990

Synopsis

Briefly traces the history of baseball cards, discusses the leading manufacturers, offers advice on building a collection, and assesses the investment value of baseball cards

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From Library Journal

Kirk presents a competent overview of one of the fastest growing hobbies. He examines the past and the feverish present as more card companies enter the market. He gives advice about building a collection. And he also discusses prices, sources, and terminology. Kirk provides some good reference advice, too, e.g., look under "collectibles" in the Yellow Pages for card dealers. A briefer and better written introduction is Donn Pearlman's Collecting Baseball Cards (Bonus Bks., 1987). Pearlman laces his account with interviews with experts. Still, this book is recommended for most popular collections. Kirk devotes ten double-columned pages to an assessment of baseball card price books and periodicals: a useful feature.
- Paul Kaplan, Highland Park P.L. , Ill.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wallace-Homestead Book Co
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0870695339
• ISBN 13: 9780870695339
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158