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How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession (Google eBook)
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Grove Press, Apr 1, 2010 - Sports & Recreation - 320 pages
  

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Contents

Please Mister Give Me the Picture
11
Anyone Can Get the Cards
31
People Chew Harder When They Are Sad
49
Cartophilia
69
The Great Changemaker
89
Down in the Subsubbasements
115
Nostalgia Futures
139
Cardboard Gold
159
Gem Mint Ten
177
The Ringmaster
193
A Visit to the Doctor
217
Its Just a Piece of Cardboard
237
Notes
249
Acknowledgments
271
Copyright

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Bibliographic information

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TitleMint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession
AuthorDave Jamieson
PublisherGrove Press, 2010
ISBN0802197159, 9780802197153
Length320 pages
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Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General
  
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