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Mint Condition

- How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession
Af: Dave Jamieson Engelsk Paperback

Mint Condition

- How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession
Af: Dave Jamieson Engelsk Paperback
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When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson rediscovered his childhood baseball card collection he figured that now was the time to cash in on his “investments.” But when he tried the card shops, they were nearly all gone, closed forever. eBay was no help, either. Baseball cards were selling for next to nothing. What had happened? In Mint Condition, the first comprehensive history of this American icon, Jamieson finds the answers and much more. In the years after the Civil War, tobacco companies started slipping baseball cards into cigarette packs as collector’s items, launching a massive advertising war. Before long, the cards were wagging the cigarettes. In the 1930s, baseball cards helped gum and candy makers survive the Great Depression, and kept children in touch with the game. After World War II, Topps Chewing Gum Inc. built itself into an American icon, hooking a generation of baby boomers on bubble gum and baseball cards. In the 1960s, royalties from cards helped to transform the players’ union into one of the country’s most powerful, dramatically altering the business of the game. And in the ''80s and ''90s, cards went through a spectacular bubble, becoming a billion-dollar-a-year industry before all but disappearing. Brimming with colorful characters, this is a rollicking, century-spanning, and extremely entertaining history.
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When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson rediscovered his childhood baseball card collection he figured that now was the time to cash in on his “investments.” But when he tried the card shops, they were nearly all gone, closed forever. eBay was no help, either. Baseball cards were selling for next to nothing. What had happened? In Mint Condition, the first comprehensive history of this American icon, Jamieson finds the answers and much more. In the years after the Civil War, tobacco companies started slipping baseball cards into cigarette packs as collector’s items, launching a massive advertising war. Before long, the cards were wagging the cigarettes. In the 1930s, baseball cards helped gum and candy makers survive the Great Depression, and kept children in touch with the game. After World War II, Topps Chewing Gum Inc. built itself into an American icon, hooking a generation of baby boomers on bubble gum and baseball cards. In the 1960s, royalties from cards helped to transform the players’ union into one of the country’s most powerful, dramatically altering the business of the game. And in the ''80s and ''90s, cards went through a spectacular bubble, becoming a billion-dollar-a-year industry before all but disappearing. Brimming with colorful characters, this is a rollicking, century-spanning, and extremely entertaining history.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9780802145321
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0802145329
Kategori: United States of America, USA
Udg. Dato: 26 maj 2011
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 210mm
Højde: 138mm
Forlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Oplagsdato: 26 maj 2011
Forfatter(e): Dave Jamieson
Forfatter(e) Dave Jamieson

Kategori United States of America, USA

ISBN-13 9780802145321

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 210mm

Højde 138mm

Udg. Dato 26 maj 2011

Oplagsdato 26 maj 2011

Forlag Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press