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Author: Brendan C. Boyd
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780316104296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReflections on collecting baseball cards in childhood accompany remarks on the skills and achievements of players whose pictures were found in bubble gum packages
Author: Steve Clark
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780448123233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bert Randolph Sugar
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 0486234983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere are reproductions of 98 authentic baseball cards representing 104 great players of baseball's Golden Age, from 1880 to 1940. Included are superstars such as Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, and many other famous names in the history of baseball, from John McGraw and Connie Mack to Rudy York and Leo Durocher. Each card is an authentic reproduction of the original, with a full-color illustration of the player on one side and the original information and advertising on the reverse. This book represents a collection of rare baseball cards which would take years of searching and thousands of dollars to match.
Author: Bob Woods
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1613123655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYankee Greats features 100 baseball cards of the greatest and most popular Yankees from the celebrated trading-card company Topps. Showcasing original cards for hall-of-fame players such as Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Yogi Berra, and current heroes like Derek Jeter, this unique package provides a fun and fresh approach to revisiting America’s favorite pastime with one of baseball’s most beloved teams. Since the Yankee’s humble beginnings in 1903 as the New York Highlanders to today’s star-studded team, the Bronx Bombers have won 27 World Championships—more titles than any other professional sports franchise in history. Yankee Greats will let Yankee and baseball fans alike revel in and reminisce over so many of the players that helped make baseball what it is today, and these legendary cards will bring back fond memories for both young and old collectors.
Author: Peter Devereaux
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2018-10-23
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 158834634X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA charming gift book showcasing baseball cards from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries alongside photos from the early days of the nation's beloved pastime Game Faces showcases rare and colorful baseball cards from the Library of Congress's Benjamin K. Edwards Collection, bringing to life an era of American history that saw the game explode in popularity. Marrying gems from the collection's 2,100 baseball cards to images of American life from 1887 to 1914, the book also offers engaging insights into the players and the game, giving readers an intimate view of both baseball's development and American culture at the turn of the twentieth century. The book highlights cards depicting many of the game's first stars--including Ty Cobb, Cy Young, and Christy Mathewson--as well as less widely known figures, shown with extravagant ornamentation and boldly juxtaposed colors that render the cards works of art in their own right. Game Faces is a rich, engrossing history of the baseball card and the ways that it has illustrated and influenced American culture as a whole. It is a must-have for those who love baseball.
Author: Casey Childress
Publisher: Harbinger House
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780943173931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains to kids how to start, build, and care for a baseball card collection.
Author: Bruce M. Nash
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780671693602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating book features inspirational, heartwarming, funny and always upbeat stories about 45 major leaguers in their formative playing years from Little League through high school. Each story is accompanied by a photograph of each player as he appeared then and as he appears today.
Author: John Bloom
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781452900254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brad Balukjian
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2020-04-01
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1496221508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected--a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell premise: he took a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 (the first year he collected cards), opened it, chewed the nearly thirty-year-old gum inside, gagged, and then embarked on a quest to find all the players in the pack. Absurd, maybe, but true. He took this trip solo in the summer of 2015, spanning 11,341 miles through thirty states in forty-eight days. Balukjian actively engaged with his subjects--taking a hitting lesson from Rance Mulliniks, watching kung fu movies with Garry Templeton, and going to the zoo with Don Carman. In the process of finding all the players but one, he discovered an astonishing range of experiences and untold stories in their post-baseball lives, and he realized that we all have more in common with ballplayers than we think. While crisscrossing the country, Balukjian retraced his own past, reconnecting with lost loves and coming to terms with his lifelong battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Alternately elegiac and uplifting, The Wax Pack is part baseball nostalgia, part road trip travelogue, and all heart, a reminder that greatness is not found in the stats on the backs of baseball cards but in the personal stories of the men on the front of them.
Author: Alfred Slote
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780673801357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring a summer of baseball and baseball card trading, eleven-year-old Andy makes discoveries about his father, his grandfather, who played professional baseball, and himself.
