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Description: Further DetailsTitle: Mint ConditionCondition: NewSubtitle: How Baseball Cards Became an American ObsessionEAN: 9780802145321ISBN: 9780802145321Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/26/2011Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 209mmItem Length: 139mmItem Weight: 283gAuthor: Dave JamiesonGenre: Architecture & AntiquesRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Mint Condition

Publication Name: Mint Condition

Title: Mint Condition

Subtitle: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession

EAN: 9780802145321

ISBN: 9780802145321

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Format: Paperback

Release Date: 05/26/2011

Release Year: 2011

Language: English

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Item Height: 209mm

Item Length: 139mm

Item Weight: 283g

Author: Dave Jamieson

Genre: Architecture & Antiques

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