Earlier this year, I wrote a post about some clippings I found in our newspaper morgue that pertained to baseball cards. I featured only one of the clips because it came with half-tones of two old baseball cards, the 1975 Topps Bert Blyleven and the 1976 Topps Pete Rose. But the envelope was filled with other clippings related to baseball cards. So I pulled a few of them that I thought were interesting to show here. The most interesting one to me is from 1970 (that's why there's a 1970 card here). You can see this is from the New York Times and I was greatly amused by this because it reads like the new-fangled thing that kids like to do is -- gasp -- collect full sets!!! "A Willie Mays is no more valuable than say, an Ed Spiezio to these kids." I guess this article is talking about me! I'm the "new sophistication"! But it's certainly not talking about most of the collectors I come across today or probably for the past 35 years or more. I a...
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