Author, publisher and hobby expert Bob Lemke died of congestive heart failure Tuesday morning at a hospital near his central Pennsylvania home. Born in Wisconsin in 1951 and a fixture in the hobby since the 1970s, Lemke was influential in Krause Publications getting into the sports card and memorabilia publishing business with SCD and other titles. … [Read more...]
Notes: Krause Founder Dies at 92; Rose Rookie into 6 Figures; Maris Auction
Chet Krause, the founder of Krause Publications, died Saturday at age 92. Krause was a pioneer in the field of collecting-oriented publications, building a multi-million dollar company that produced numerous titles and eventually books for a wide variety of collecting genres. His Iola, Wisconsin-based company eventually purchased Sports Collectors Digest from Stommen … [Read more...]
Review: New Standard Catalog Is Eclectic And Thorough
The just-released fifth edition of the “Standard Catalog of Vintage Baseball Cards” remains a sturdy reference guide for collectors. Packed into 696 pages are more than 250,000 values for cards issued between 1863 and 1980, with most broken down into three conditions (near mint, excellent and very good). In the book, cards are organized alphabetically and then by year, and … [Read more...]
New Standard Catalog of Football Cards Includes Over 1,000 Sets
A new edition of the Standard Catalog of Vintage Football Cards is now available from Krause Publications. The huge tome features checklists and poricing information for over 1,000 sets as well as black and white images of sample cards to help with identification. The book covers mainstream issues to regional oddities from the NFL, CFL, USFL, and college team sets. … [Read more...]
Tuff Stuff Ceases Publication; SCD Goes Twice Monthly
Newspapers and magazines have taken the brunt of the rapid switch to an electronic-based information system in recent years. The impact has been felt in the sports memorabilia industry with various cutbacks taking place on the number and variety of print issues produced and the size of many of the hobby's long-running publications. Now, F+W Publications, parent company of … [Read more...]