Giving sensible advice on how to build a baseball card collection, an illustrated guide explains how to grade and protect cards, with tips on trade shows, how to spot fakes, sources of additional information, and more.
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Grade 3 Up-This new edition has many differences and improvements over the original (Millbrook, 1993), including a much longer glossary and more information on determining condition, inserts, shows, Internet buying and selling, the future of collecting, and Web sites. However, the first edition has better illustrations-nearly all are larger and have more legible text. Owens writes in a light, entertaining style, starting with the history of the baseball-card industry from its beginnings in 1869. He goes into detail about how to determine the all-important condition of cards and tells how the Internet has changed collecting. The valuable section on card shows even tells the best time to approach a dealer to get a bargain. Some of the players pictured are not identified, and at times illustration and text are not juxtaposed. However, these are minor drawbacks to a sure hit.
Kate Kohlbeck, Randall School, Waukesha, WI
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Kate Kohlbeck, Randall School, Waukesha, WI
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Color photos throughout display vintage cards,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Collecting Baseball Cards (Paperback)
It would be a shame to limit Thomas Owens' Collecting Baseball Cards to the young audience it was written for: many an adult collector will find this the perfect introduction to baseball cards, using easy language to explain how the cards are graded and what determines their value. Color photos throughout display vintage cards.
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With color photos of cards and players,
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This review is from: Collecting Baseball Crds:21st (Library Binding)
Thomas Owens' Collecting Baseball Cards (1708-2) provides a primer on collecting, with color photos of cards and players supplementing the basics on how to start and value a collection.
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