Books of interest to collectors

[suave1477]

Re: Books of interest to collectors

One of the best underrated books i found and HIGHLY HIGHLY SUGGEST TO GET!!!
"The Timeline History of Baseball" by Don Jensen
It is a greatbook about all of baseball including Items that we collect.
It give exact details to the history of baseball the origin of the items from the Lemon Peel ball to Every Baseball Record stat there is.
Again I highly reccomend

Here is a link to it on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Timeline-History-Baseball-Don-Jensen/dp/1403967687/sr=1-4/qid=1160266587/ref=sr_1_4/102-8417152-9066529?ie=UTF8&s=books

My next favorite is
"Now Batting, Number....." by Jack Looney
Great insight on players, there Jerseys, and of course there Jersey Numbers

Here is the link on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Now-Batting-Number-Superstition-Baseballs/dp/1579125751

My next favorite as it may not exactly apply to the Game Used hobby but still a great read.
"My favorite Summer 1956" by Mickey Mantle Autobiography.
Not only does it give great info on The Mick but also the events taking place around him, Definitely a great read and worth picking up.

Here is the Amazon Link.

http://www.amazon.com/Favorite-Summer-1956-Mickey-Mantle/dp/187937109X

HAPPY READING!!!

[vintagesportscollector]

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Unfortunately I haven't seen the Incurable Collector episode with Bill Mastro's collection either. I remember Dan and Aarron putting out the reminders, but I missed it (probably because I like to sleep in late on Sunday). But I'm always up for trip to Nebraska with a bucket of wings . Got to make a trip to Carhenge too while i'm there, and I think I'll bring a couple of "Corn Heads" back for the kids.

This reminds me - I haven't popped in my tape of the Halper Collection in quite a while - I think I'll do that one of these evenings.

[slidekellyslide]

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I didn't think anyone outside of Nebraska had ever heard of carhenge. My wife and I stopped there once on our way to the Black Hills...at the time I had a camera that could take panoramic photos and I got a great shot of the whole thing. Cornheads can be found on any corner near Memorial stadium on a home game Saturday.

PS. I didn't know there was a video of the Halper collection. How can I obtain one of those?

[vintagesportscollector]

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I used to have a coworker from Nebraska - I learned a lot about the state from her.

The Halper video was created on VHS in 1991. It's called "The Ultimate Baseball Memorabilia Collection". You can probably get a copy on ebay. It's about 45 minutes. It's good -not great. You get some good quick views of many items and displays, but they could have shown A LOT LOT more.

[mjkm90]

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I have that tape as well. It would have been much better had they let a group of rabid collectors like us direct it.