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2 comments about Baseball's Top 500: Card Checklist & Price Guide.

1. Sports Collector's Digest (SCD) has been the authority on the sports card hobby for years. Like most of their previous publications, this one's full of good solid information and it includes a few photographs of key cards; however, anyone thinking of buying this book to use as a price guide should keep in mind that this was published in October of 1999 and is therefore not an up to date representation of current sports card prices. Depending on the player and issue, sports card prices can change dramatically in a very short period of time. If you're strictly looking for a price guide, then I suggest you pick up the most current issue of a monthly price guide magazine which will have pricing information that more accurately reflects the current market. This guide will put you in the "ballpark" in terms of pricing, but I recommend it more for research and information than for accurate pricing. Overall, a useful read for anyone interested in sports cards.



2. I just recently purchased this book off of Amazon, and once I started going through it, I quickly became disappointed. I have a very small stack of about 20 Bob Feller cards, and a few of them were not even listed, so I'm sure that there are several other Feller cards that are missing. I bought this book because I wanted to collect every Bob Feller card ever made, and now I am right back where I started - without a complete Bob Feller checklist. Also, though no fault of the author's, this book only goes up through 1999, so nothing from 2000-present will be listed, and the prices listed for each card are sure to be a little out of date.
   
   The good things about this book are that every major player you may want to collect will be listed, and they are in alphabetical order for easy reference.
   
   Bottom line: Nice book if you just want to collect a handful of your favorite player's cards, but if you're going for a complete collection, I can't recommend it.

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3 comments about Collecting Baseball Cards: How to Buy Them, Store Them, Trade Them, and Keep Track of Their Value As Investments.

1. I thought I would get a current and comprehensive review of the hobby when I ordered this book. I purchased it new because I wanted a current edition. As soon as I received it I saw that its copyright (even though it was a third edition) was 1990. I read it anyway hoping that maybe they had attached a couple of new chapters to cover the internet and online auctions and their impact on the hobby, but no luck. This book needs updating badly. Too bad, I was hoping for advice and I got something that a 10 year old would not want to write his book report on because it's so badly outdated by current events.



2. I READ THE BOOK MANY YEARS AGO AND IT WAS DATED THEN. I HAVE COLLECTED FOR 44 YEARS AND LOVE THE HOBBY, BUT THIS IS NOT GOING TO TEACH ANYONE ENOUGH ABOUT THE HOBBY TODAY TO BUY THE BOOK. IT IS SEMI INTERESTING BUT I THINK THAT IT IS FOR THE MID 80'S NOT TODAY.

   MR. PEARLMAN IS VERY KNOWLEDGABLE AND THE BOOK WILL GIVE YOU A GREAT AMOUNT OF INFORMATION FROM THE DAYS GONE BY. IT IS FUN TO REMEMBER THE PAST, YET WITH TODAYS ISSUES WITH CARDS AND THE HORRID AMOUNT OF CARDS BEING PRODUCED, THE DAYS OF COLLECTING AND TRADING ARE STILL HERE FOR THE CHILDREN. BUT WHEN I SEE A CHILD OPEN A $20.00 PACK OF CARDS AND IMMDIATELY LOOK AT A PRICE GUIDE TO SEE HOW MUCH THEY ARE WORTH (ACORDING TO THE GUIDES), FOR ME IT THAS TAKEN THE JOY OF THE SPORT AND COLLECTING AWAY. THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY CHANGES SINCE THE PUBLISHING OF THIS BOOK THAT IT IS GOOD FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO COLLECT OLDER CARDS ONLY.




3. Hello. I'm Donn Pearlman, author of Collecting Baseball Cards, and I appreciated all the wonderful response when it was first published in 1987, and a subsequent follow up edition two years later. Not a price guide, it was the first major "how to" book about baseball cards in many years when it was first published. But it has not been updated since then, and yes, it is verrry outdated in many respects.
   
   The information and advice about learning all you can about cards BEFORE purchasing still is valid; so's the info about encouraging readers to learn about card grading. But there's no info about the Internet, the many card companies that have come and gone since 1989, and other information that would be needed to make the book much more useful in the 21st century. Because of other professional commitments, I do not have plans at this time to write an updated version.
   
   Happy collecting all,
   -donn-
   Donn Pearlman

4 comments about Official Price Guide to Baseball Cards 1998, 17th Edition (Official Price Guide to Baseball Cards).

1. goo



2. i like this book so much but i moved and can't get it anymore so i get one monthly they cost less on amazon then any other place that i go to.



3. This magazine has everything you need to know about baseball card collecting. I recomend this series of monthly price guides to any card collector!!!



4. this book help the average joe every day

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