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American Card Catalog Classifications For Dummies

April 23, 2017 By Anson Whaley

1909 Joe Jackson rookie card

Jefferson Burdick's American Card Catalog is a decades-old guide that is still used by collectors today. While we don't really classify modern sets in the same way, Burdick's reference book was essential to cataloguing older sets of cards that were distributed by various types of companies. Burdick used simple letter classifications to organize sets. Many vintage and … [Read more...] about American Card Catalog Classifications For Dummies

SI Vault’s ‘Evolution of Baseball Cards’

May 31, 2016 By Rich Mueller

Vintage Baseball Cards Just Collect

Sports Illustrated recently produced a 21-minute podcast on the evolution of baseball cards.  Beginning in the 19th century when the love of cigarettes grew and created a need and desire for packaging stiffeners to the gum-less packaging and on-demand world of the 21st century, the segment runs the gamut. There are interview clips with Freyda Spira, a curator at the … [Read more...] about SI Vault’s ‘Evolution of Baseball Cards’

Baseball Card Exhibit at The Met Opens Next Week

May 31, 2016 By Rich Mueller

Babe Ruth 1933 Goudey baseball card

Since the mid-19th century, when the New York Knickerbockers played the first organized baseball games using modern-day rules, New York has been home to some of the sport’s most successful and beloved teams. Opening June 10 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition The Old Ball Game: New York Baseball, 1887–1977 will include nearly 400 baseball cards featuring … [Read more...] about Baseball Card Exhibit at The Met Opens Next Week

Digitization Bringing Jefferson Burdick Collection to All

October 25, 2015 By Bob D'Angelo

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York houses some true masterpieces by the world’s greatest artists. Vincent Van Gogh. Pablo Picasso. Salvador Dali. And Jefferson Burdick. That’s right. Burdick, the father of baseball card collecting, is an artist in his own right. His collection of cards and other ephemera, located in the museum’s drawing and prints department, … [Read more...] about Digitization Bringing Jefferson Burdick Collection to All

Burdick Letters at Auction

June 7, 2015 By Rich Mueller

Jefferson Burdick letter

Letters from Jefferson Burdick to his fellow baseball card collecting pioneers are up for sale through Hunt Auctions. Burdick, who decades ago painstakingly catalogued thousands of cards as he grew his remarkable collection, died in 1963, but the letters provide some important insight into the man few of today's collectors ever knew. In one letter he wrote to Wagner … [Read more...] about Burdick Letters at Auction

News and Notes: Lawsuit Over Photos; NFL Player’s Stuff Missing; Burdick Letter

July 21, 2014 By Rich Mueller

A collection of more than 250,000 vintage baseball images hangs in the balance after a lawsuit was filed recently in Arkansas. According to a report from ArkansasBusiness.com, the heir and former owner of the George Burke and George Brace Collection, filed a breach of contract lawsuit against North Little Rock businessman John Rogers and his company, which purchased the … [Read more...] about News and Notes: Lawsuit Over Photos; NFL Player’s Stuff Missing; Burdick Letter

Jefferson Burdick’s Football Card Collection Going on Display

January 8, 2014 By Rich Mueller

On the occasion of the upcoming Super Bowl—the first ever played in the New York area—The Metropolitan Museum of Art will display a selection of vintage football cards from its celebrated Jefferson R. Burdick Collection of printed ephemera. Opening January 24, Gridiron Greats: Vintage Football Cards in the Collection of  Jefferson R. Burdick  will feature some 150 football … [Read more...] about Jefferson Burdick’s Football Card Collection Going on Display

Museum Working to Put Jefferson Burdick Collection Online

August 11, 2013 By Rich Mueller

Jim Burke illustration Jefferson Burdick

We’ll never know what Jefferson Burdick would have thought of the current state of baseball card collecting.  The man who knew more about cards printed prior to the 1960’s than any man alive has been gone for almost 50 years but he left behind quite a legacy. The man who virtually invented the system still used today to identify various issues (T for tobacco and a number to … [Read more...] about Museum Working to Put Jefferson Burdick Collection Online

Q&A With Mint Condition Author Dave Jamieson

April 6, 2010 By Rich Mueller

Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession

A lot of books have been written about baseball cards.  How did you get a publisher interested and what was that process like? DJ: The book came about in an unusual way. It was actually the idea of my terrific editor at Grove/Atlantic, Jamison Stoltz, to write a popular history of baseball cards. Jamison (who, yes, shares a very similar name with me) had read a piece I’d … [Read more...] about Q&A With Mint Condition Author Dave Jamieson

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