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Interview with Mike Aronstein, Founder of TCMA

ripkenintheminorsripkenintheminors Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭
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Hey folks, hope all is well. I do not have a link on the site ready for this but I wanted to go ahead and let you all see my recent interview with Mike Aronstein. At the end of the interview is a link for an image gallery of scans Mike provided. The scans show ads for various TCMA sets as well as a letter from TCMA to a team with the agreement to produce the sets. Enjoy!

Aronstein Interview
-Chris

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  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
    That was a great interview image
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  • judgebuckjudgebuck Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭
    I met Tom Collier of TCMA several years ago when he lived in west Tennessee. He lived in Vale, Tennessee, a crossroads-type town. He still had a great deal of sports memorabilia that he was half-heartedly trying to sell. I remember the last time I saw him, he said that my fellow collectors who were with me and I had better buy what we wanted because he wasn't going to show it to us any more. I made him an offer for everything that he showed us that day, and he took it. I'm sure he still had much left that we never saw. He would never bring everything out of the back room for us to see. He only brought it out a little at a time each time we would visit.

    Always looking for Mantle cards such as Stahl Meyer, 1954 Dan Dee, 1959 Bazooka, 1960 Post, 1952 Star Cal Decal, 1952 Tip Top Bread Labels, 1953-54 Briggs Meat, and other Topps, Bowman, and oddball Mantles.

  • ripkenintheminorsripkenintheminors Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I met Tom Collier of TCMA several years ago when he lived in west Tennessee. He lived in Vale, Tennessee, a crossroads-type town. He still had a great deal of sports memorabilia that he was half-heartedly trying to sell. I remember the last time I saw him, he said that my fellow collectors who were with me and I had better buy what we wanted because he wasn't going to show it to us any more. I made him an offer for everything that he showed us that day, and he took it. I'm sure he still had much left that we never saw. He would never bring everything out of the back room for us to see. He only brought it out a little at a time each time we would visit. >>



    Small world. I've spent the better part of three years trying to locate Tom Collier. I just realized that Vale, TN, is a town I pass by at least once or twice a month. Amazing. Do you know how long ago he passed away?
    -Chris

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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Great interview, brings back a lot of memories, Mill Printing is where I got plenty of odd ball sets from.


    Steve
    Good for you.
  • pdub1819pdub1819 Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭✭
    very cool

    https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/pdub1819/othersets/6204

  • judgebuckjudgebuck Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭
    According to the Mike Aronstein interview, Tom Collier did about two years ago.

    Always looking for Mantle cards such as Stahl Meyer, 1954 Dan Dee, 1959 Bazooka, 1960 Post, 1952 Star Cal Decal, 1952 Tip Top Bread Labels, 1953-54 Briggs Meat, and other Topps, Bowman, and oddball Mantles.

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