Brad Balukjian has done what most collectors have only dreamed about — making a pack of baseball cards come alive. Balukjian’s upcoming book, The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife, mixes the “On the Road” feel of Charles Kuralt with Lawrence Ritter. The book is the culmination of six years of research, interviews and observations that will be … [Read more...] about Waxing Nostalgic: Author Visits With Players He Found Inside a Single Pack of 1986 Topps
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Tan Man’s New Book: “Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict”
If you got some Christmas cash (or an Amazon gift card), there’s a new hobby-related book you might want to check out. Tanner Jones, who runs a website development company out of his Texas home and has operated his "Tan Man Baseball Fan" website for seven years, has written a 181-page book chronicling his adventures in collecting, buying and selling. Confessions of a … [Read more...] about Tan Man’s New Book: “Confessions of a Baseball Card Addict”
New Book Chronicles Exhibit and Other Sports Arcade Cards
You can find them online and at larger card shows. Checklists exist, too, but there is much more to know and understand about Exhibit and other arcade-type cards that went into production in the early 1920s and were an American mainstay for decades. Collector Adam Warshaw hopes to broaden the hobby’s knowledge base with a newly published book. Exhibit and Related … [Read more...] about New Book Chronicles Exhibit and Other Sports Arcade Cards
Book on Vintage Regional-Food Issue Sets Now on Kindle
Never Cheaper by the Dozen, a book published on CD last year by long-time collector Brian Powell, is now available on Kindle. The 588-page book focuses on the stories behind some of the best known food and regional baseball sets from 1947-1971. Author Brian Powell spent several years writing Never Cheaper, which through his research and conversations with other … [Read more...] about Book on Vintage Regional-Food Issue Sets Now on Kindle
New Book: The O-Pee-Chee Hockey Card Story
Collectors who appreciate learning about the history of trading card companies and their products have a new book to consider. The O-Pee-Chee Hockey Card story offers 116 pages of information and background on the London, Ontario-based company that was a part of every Canadian kid’s childhood for many years, producing hockey and baseball gum cards. The book’s author … [Read more...] about New Book: The O-Pee-Chee Hockey Card Story
New Book Focuses on Vintage Food, Regional Card Sets
The old adage is, if you can’t find a book about what you want to read about, write it yourself. Brian Powell has done that with his new book on collecting regional-food issue baseball cards, written by a collector with sports fans and fellow collectors in mind. Never Cheaper by the Dozen: Those Special ‘Free Prize’ Sports Collectibles from the Golden Era of … [Read more...] about New Book Focuses on Vintage Food, Regional Card Sets
A Pack of Wax, and Stacks of Memories
Brad Balukjian emerges from his friend’s bungalow in the Hyde Park section of Tampa, Florida, looking surprisingly fresh. He doesn’t look like a guy who drove 849 miles from Memphis to Tampa the night before, traveling 13 hours in his 2002 Honda Accord. “It’s been the longest day of my trip,” he says. This has been an unusual sojourn, one that has added 4,700 miles to a … [Read more...] about A Pack of Wax, and Stacks of Memories
Great American Baseball Card Book is Back on Kindle
If not for a chance encounter in 1972, The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading And Bubblegum Book might never have been born and the hobby might never grown into the bustling industry that we know today. Indeed, when a curious collector walked into a Boston bookstore that summer looking for a book about baseball cards, he couldn't have known that he was about to … [Read more...] about Great American Baseball Card Book is Back on Kindle