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Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession

Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession

Product Type: Book

Product Price: $25.00

Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press

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When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson’s parents sold his childhood home a few years ago, he rediscovered a prized boyhood possession: his baseball card collection. Now was the time to cash in on the “investments” of his youth. But all the card shops had closed, and cards were selling for next to nothing online. What had happened? In Mint Condition, his fascinating, eye-opening, endlessly entertaining book, Jamieson finds the answer by tracing the complete story of this beloved piece of American childhood. Picture cards had long been used for advertising, but after the Civil War, tobacco companies started slipping them into cigarette packs as collector’s items. Before long, the cards were wagging the cigarettes. In the 1930s, cards helped gum and candy makers survive the Great Depression. In the 1960s, royalties from cards helped transform the baseball players association into one of the country’s most powerful unions, dramatically altering the game. In the ’80s and ’90s, cards went through a spectacular bubble, becoming a billion-dollar-a-year industry before all but disappearing, surviving today as the rarified preserve of adult collectors. Mint Condition is charming, original history brimming with colorful characters, sure to delight baseball fans and collectors.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-29
Summary: "For some it was ALWAYS a business..."

I "inherited" my first 52 Topps from a friend whose Mom was probably sick of moving them. Barry Wallach later became a CPA and his future success was demonstrated in the small notebook in which he recorded every player's card by number. He meticulously collected this data while he managed his collection. I've tried several times to find him to return this childhood keepsake. Most of us collected the cards as a first love.....some, however, were onto its' financial value long before it became a national obsession.
The same thing that you might learn from this book was pointed out to us in "Toy Story".......USE, ENJOY, WEAR THE HELL out of your childhood things.....you can't trade them in for your youth anyhow.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-27
Summary: "Like my cards, this book will be with me forever..."

This is the book that many of us have been waiting for, if not outright then at least in our imaginations. Jamieson delves mightily into a subject that was so near to the heart of many a childhood (and let's face it, adulthood as well.)

I am awed by the amount of research performed by the author. He tracks down and interviews dozens of a dying breed, those who were around in the early days of the card explosion. Additionally, he does not leave aside those who were key to the industry/hobby but who are no longer alive. He seems to have gone to great lengths to provide a thorough accounting of the product's evolution, making many a trek to review various collections of cards and, by extension, other pop culture.

I am further wowed by Jamieson's ability to translate his research in such a fascinating and vivid way. In fact, the author's accounts of some of the works he has seen has piqued my curiosity enough to seek these trips out myself. Other than in a travel magazine, how often do you read about a place or thing, and the description is so interesting that you then have to see it for yourself? For me, this is a first, and what makes this idea even more preposterous is that some of the items that Jamieson mentions were merely extensions of his research and had before held little interest to me.

Though I read non-fiction more than fiction, I find myself periodically needing to lay the non-fiction aside for a day or two before picking it up again. Not this book: I could not put it down.

Thanks, Dave, for a great read. Much like pulling my cards out from their closet every few years, I suspect that I will again be pulling your book off the shelf.

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-07-23
Summary: "An obession explained"

I never collected baseball cards as a kid (I spent my allowance money in the 1960s on comic books). i did start collecting as an adult, getting into the hobby just before the 'baseball card as an investment' craze took off. I never believed that any of those cards I bought in the 1980s was ever going to be worth any money. I collected because I liked baseball, and, as long-time Topps card designer, Woody Gelman, is quoted in the book because I had the "collecting disease". 25 years later and I'm still collecting, for much the same reason. This book is a pretty good summation of 100 or so yearsof baseball card collecting. Some of the material is duplicative of material found in "The Card" by Michael O'Keefee and Teri Thompson. But "The Card" is mostly about the 1909 Honus Wagner card while Jamieson's book is more broadly focused. This book will interest anyone involved in the hobby.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-20
Summary: "mint condition"

I really enjoyed this book if only because I grew up in the heyday of baseball cards the 1950's and 60's.

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-13
Summary: "A fascinating social history general lending libraries will relish"

MINT CONDITION: HOW BASEBALL CARDS BECAME AN AMERICAN OBSESSION is a 'must' history for collector and sports libraries alike, offering insights not just into card values, but the business of card marketing strategies that grew the baseball card and other industries. From the years after the Civil War to how the cards helped gum and candy makers survive the Depression, this is a fascinating social history general lending libraries will relish.