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1977 Bert Randolph Sugar Dover Pre War Reprints completely intact. Not in SCD?

I would like some help and opinions on this item. This is a 1977 Dover Publications Reprint Complete Set still intact. It is a book and the cards are perforated. As you can see, they are cards from the 1800's up to before WW2.

I know that a complete set probably isn't worth much, but what about the entire set still intact? There are a few singles on eBay (10 or so), but there are no complete sets and there are definitely none still intact. The weird thing is that these cards are not in the SCD Standard. Bob Lemke, if you're out there, I would love to know why these aren't included. There is a Dover Publications Postcard set from 1978 included in the SCD, but not these.

I took pictures of the whole book. Any opinions or comments would be appreciated. I personally think it is a very neat item, especially since it is from the 1970's. If this was from the late 1980's, I probably wouldn't have bothered posting it. Here it is.


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Shane

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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭
    Do a search on ebay for "classic baseball cards book" and you'll see quite a few auctions.

    EDIT: In ebay stores, that is. There are quite a few complete books, and they're only around $10.
  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,169 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks

    Shane



  • << <i>Thanks >>



    There is also another issued around the same time that is the companion book to this one.
  • ndleondleo Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like a great source for scam auctions.
    Mike


  • << <i>Looks like a great source for scam auctions. >>



    They are unlike some of the other scam reprint cards, in the fact that they have reprint boldly printed on the back easily detected if tried to remove.
  • frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,169 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Looks like a great source for scam auctions. >>



    They are perforated, plus they are glossy (along with saying reprint on the back.

    Shane

  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    That's a neat book. My parents gave me a baseball card locker back in the late 1970's that had one of those in it. That book started my love of the older cards. Those are some of the first TTM cards that I ever sent off to be signed. I got back the Doerr, Feller and Hubbell. Dimaggio didn't even open the envelope. Have no idea where those cards are today.

    If you decide to get rid of it, I'll give you $10 for it to bring back some memories.

    Mike
    Buying US Presidential autographs
  • I got that book as a kid and I took the Honus Wagner card out, roughed up the edges and as a joke told my Dad I found it in the attic. He thought that was pretty funny.
  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭
    when i was in cooperstown for ripken's induction bert was at one of the stores selling his books, i got my picture taken with him, great guy and was dressed just like you thought he would be
    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • AUPTAUPT Posts: 806 ✭✭✭
    The various Dover reprint books used to be listed in the Standard Catalog, but we had to cut them when space became too tight.

    If the entire data base is ever published as a CD/DVD, they'd be in there.

    I concur with the @$10 value for an intact book.
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    bump
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  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had three or four different books like that one as a kid. Loved 'em. Always kept them intact, too. Probably still have them somewhere at my parents' house.

    Tabe
  • AUPTAUPT Posts: 806 ✭✭✭
    The reason the Dover postcards are still in the Standard Catalog, while the reprint books are not, is that the Dover postcards were not reprints, but rather were a collectors' issue, similar to contemporary TCMA, etc. sets.

    There are too many 1980s-1990s reprint sets (Fritsch, Gelman, Galasso) to list all of them in the catalog, so we quit listing any of them when space got tight.
  • msassinmsassin Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭
    I remember having that book as a kid. The cards didn't stay in the book for long. The '33 Delong Pie Traynor was my favorite.
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