Mint Condition How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession

by Jamieson, Dave

• ISBN13: 9780802119391
• ISBN10: 0802119395
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-06
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

Summary

- There are hundreds of thousands of dedicated baseball-card collectors across the country, and they spend a lot of money on their hobby- From Phoenix, AZ, to Manassas, VA, on almost every weekend during the year a baseball card show is held

Author Biography

Dave Jamieson has written for Slate, The New Republic, and Washington City Paper, among others, and in 2008 he won the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He lives in Washington, D.C., with a closetful of worthless baseball cards, all of them in excellent condition.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Please, Mister, Give Me the Picture!	p. 11
Anyone Can Get the Cards	p. 31
People Chew Harder When They Are Sad	p. 49
Cartophilia	p. 69
The Great Changemaker	p. 89
Down in the Sub-subbasements	p. 115
Nostalgia Futures	p. 139
Cardboard Gold	p. 159
Gem Mint Ten!	p. 177
The Ringmaster	p. 193
A Visit to the Doctor	p. 217
It's Just a Piece of Cardboard	p. 237
Notes	p. 249
Acknowledgments	p. 271
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