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Keith Olbermann's passion for collecting

HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
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I found an editorial by Keith Olbermann in a "Winter 1975" Collectors Quarterly magazine -- the premier issue. He's been passionate about collecting longer than many forum members have been in existence!

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Check out the vintage-70s outfit:

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  • cards651cards651 Posts: 665 ✭✭
    Great find, Mike. I did not know he went back that far. He used to have a card show on TV in Los Angeles in the early 90's. I am pretty sure it ran Sunday nights at 11:30 on the station where he was an anchor. As a collector, I enjoyed it but I can't imagine it picked up enough of an audience. Thanks for posting. - Kevin
  • judgebuckjudgebuck Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭
    Thanks for posting this. I love to see old collecting items. My oldest item is a Card Collectors Co. price list from 1963. I got it when I was 12 years old.

    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.

  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Thanks for showing us that article. Hard to believe that he was only 16 when he wrote it!
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanx for sharing Mike!

    I was in school in the late 60s clears up to the late 70s - wish I had graduated earlier.

    If someone went nuts collecting in the 70s - what one would've picked up is off the chart in terms of affordability compared to the late 80s/early 90s - and now? Wow!
    Mike
  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭


    << <i>Thanks for posting this. I love to see old collecting items. My oldest item is a Card Collectors Co. price list from 1963. I got it when I was 12 years old. >>



    That's where the the graphic in my sig line comes from. I have the price list from '63 also. I think there's a thread showing some pages from that in this forum. (Found it at this link to "The Card Collectors Company" back in '08.)

    Glad to see you all enjoying this, too! I'll have to post some other pages I scanned a while back.



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  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
    From the "CQ":

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  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
    Some cards inserted:

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    Anyone want to try to name everyone pictured? I sure couldn't!
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  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
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  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    Wow, $1.50 for a magazine back in 1975?

    coughcapitalismcough

    Thanks for sharing!

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    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭
    Anyone know what type of magazine would have had this ad in it?

    Gonna try to find one in the local antique stores if possible

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  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭✭
    It's interesting to note the other authors....George Lyons had a huge collection and was the brother of movie critic Jeffrey Lyons, Jeff Morey still has an autograph publication, Bert Sugar is the boxing expert on ESPN, Bill Madden is a columinist for the NY Post and was recently inducted in to the writers wing of the HOF and Ted Taylor now runs TTA (used to be STAT) and is now a disgrace to the hobby...

    IMF
    Successful dealings with Wcsportscards94558, EagleEyeKid, SamsGirl214, Volver, DwayneDrain, Oaksey25, Griffins, Cardfan07, Etc.
  • judgebuckjudgebuck Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭
    Also, I note that the publisher of Collectors Quarterly was Mike Aronstein. He was the "MA" of the "TCMA" card company. The "TC" was Tom Collier. TCMA had several sets such as the Stars of the 50s.

    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.

  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    i found it very compelling to read the blurb about Renata Galasso......somewhere in the deep, dark past, some unknown entity merely made a suggestion based on a thought based on a perception and a college student decided to run with it.

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  • cards651cards651 Posts: 665 ✭✭
    No matter how long I collect, the 7 Keys for Beginning Collectors are always worth re-reading. Thanks again, Mike.
  • SoFLPhillyFanSoFLPhillyFan Posts: 3,931 ✭✭

    Apparently one of the addresses listed in Keith's article may still be linked to his corporation.

    Probably a family property.
  • neilkneelsneilkneels Posts: 52
    7 Habits of Highly Effective Card Collectors.

    Habit 1: Turn off MSNBC.

  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,152 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Also, Keith O actually wrote the back writeups for all the cards in the 630-card 1975 SSPC set.

    Steve
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Some cards inserted:

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    Anyone want to try to name everyone pictured? I sure couldn't! >>



    Left page, top row first
    Bud Harrelson, Jim Bibby, ?
    Jack McKeon, Sam McDowell, Gaylord Perry
    Jerry Ruess, Horacio Pina, ?

    Right page
    ?, Yogi, Grady Hatton
    ?, Willie Davis, ?
    ?,?,?

    Any one else want to give it a shot?

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    Olberman also had articles/letters in The Trader Speaks prior to this, around '72-74
    His Sunday nite sports show was on KTLA Channel 5 in LA, where he was also the sports guy. The hatred of him by the main anchor, Hal Fishman, was blatantly obvious. Made for some funny exchanges.

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    lower left corner first page looks like Whitey Herzog? upper left corner 2nd page i think is Bill Stein....bottom row center, Denny Doyle.
  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,152 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Some cards inserted:

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    Anyone want to try to name everyone pictured? I sure couldn't! >>




    ?, Jim Bibby, ?
    Jack McKeon, Sam McDowell, Gaylord Perry
    Whitey Herzog, Ray Sadecki, Stan Bahnsen

    Tony Muser, Yogi Berra, Preston Gomez
    Fred Sherman, Willie Davis, ?
    ?, Denny Doyle, Deron Johnson

    Steve
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,612 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here is an opportunity to buy a 1975 Topps baseball card set from a dealer's 1975 baseball card catalogue:

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  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>The hatred of him by the main anchor >>



    What. A. Shocker!

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    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • georgebailey2georgebailey2 Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭
    That dealer page looks like Stan Martucci's. I still have his catalogue (nice full color cover) and Wholesale Card's from around 1974 or 1975. If only I had a working flux capaciter.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,612 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That dealer page looks like Stan Martucci's. I still have his catalogue (nice full color cover) and Wholesale Card's from around 1974 or 1975. If only I had a working flux capaciter. >>



    Correct. image
  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭


    << <i>?, Jim Bibby, ?
    Jack McKeon, Sam McDowell, Gaylord Perry
    Whitey Herzog, Ray Sadecki, Stan Bahnsen

    Tony Muser, Yogi Berra, Preston Gomez
    Fred Sherman, Willie Davis, ?
    ?, Denny Doyle, Deron Johnson

    Steve >>



    Close, Steve!

    The players pictured are:

    left page, l-r, top-to-bottom:
    Harry William Parker - James Blair Bibby - Michael Sherman Wallace
    John Aloysius (Jack) McKeon - Samuel Edward McDowell - Gaylord Jackson Perry
    Dorrell Norman Elvert (Whitey) Herzog - Raymond Michael Sadecki - Stanley Raymond Bahnsen


    right page, l-r, top-to-bottom:
    Anthony Joseph Muser - Lawrence Peter (Yogi) Berra - Pedro W. (Preston) Gomez
    Frederick John Scherman, Jr. - William Henry Davis - Don Hopkins
    Robert Lee Oliver - Robert Dennis (Denny) Doyle - Deron Roger Johnson

    I noticed a couple other articles that may be of interest to some of you. I'm scanning as I post...
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  • slantycouchslantycouch Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Anyone know what type of magazine would have had this ad in it?

    Gonna try to find one in the local antique stores if possible

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    I could be wrong, but I think this was the type of ad that went in trade publications, sent to vendors/stores. Introducing store owners to the product and trying to get them to buy.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,612 ✭✭✭✭✭
    <<< I could be wrong, but I think this was the type of ad that went in trade publications, sent to vendors/stores. Introducing store owners to the product and trying to get them to buy. >>>

    I can't see most of the finer print, but I agree with ya, I think it's almost definitely an ad focusing on store owners. Don't forget that Topps was not a new company in 1951, they had been selling bubble gum for a number of years before, and initially saw the baseball cards as a way to sell more gum. They already had an established base of dealer stores for the bubble gum, and I doubt if they would want to circumvent that base and try to sell direct to the public, which would have hissed off the store owners, especially when they had Bowman as a competitor.

  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
    Here are almost all of the rest of the pages from the CQ referenced here:


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    Enjoy!
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  • CooptownCooptown Posts: 397 ✭✭✭
    Not sure how many of you guys are members of Sports Collectors Dot Net, but a member there sold an item to Olbermann on ebay. When he shipped it, he sent him a customized, autographed baseball card a lot of the members had made over there. He asked if Keith could do the same back to him. Keith sent him back one of those 2004 Topps Heritage cards that Topps made of him, signed and personalized. Neat story for that guy.
  • hammeredhammered Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭
    2nd page top left corner Tony Muser
    2nd page bottom middle Denny Doyle
    1st page lower right Stan Bahnsen
    2nd page middle card could be Lenny Randle
    next to him is Astros pitcher Tom Griffin (I think)
    Other side of Randle could be Herb Washington


    Edit to add - guess I'm a little late
  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭


    << <i>2nd page top left corner Tony Muser
    2nd page bottom middle Denny Doyle
    1st page lower right Stan Bahnsen
    2nd page middle card could be Lenny Randle
    next to him is Astros pitcher Tom Griffin (I think)
    Other side of Randle could be Herb Washington


    Edit to add - guess I'm a little late >>



    fyi:

    The players pictured are:

    left page, l-r, top-to-bottom:
    Harry William Parker - James Blair Bibby - Michael Sherman Wallace
    John Aloysius (Jack) McKeon - Samuel Edward McDowell - Gaylord Jackson Perry
    Dorrell Norman Elvert (Whitey) Herzog - Raymond Michael Sadecki - Stanley Raymond Bahnsen


    right page, l-r, top-to-bottom:
    Anthony Joseph Muser - Lawrence Peter (Yogi) Berra - Pedro W. (Preston) Gomez
    Frederick John Scherman, Jr. - William Henry Davis - Don Hopkins
    Robert Lee Oliver - Robert Dennis (Denny) Doyle - Deron Roger Johnson

    Some pretty obscure players pictured here!
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  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭


    << <i>Olberman also had articles/letters in The Trader Speaks prior to this, around '72-74
    His Sunday nite sports show was on KTLA Channel 5 in LA, where he was also the sports guy. The hatred of him by the main anchor, Hal Fishman, was blatantly obvious. Made for some funny exchanges. >>



    You nailed that, Griffins! Going through the Feb 1975 issue of TTS, I found an article by KO. He mentions coming over from Sports Scoops, so he worked for at least three magazines in a 2-year period or so...

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  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    Nice!
    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
    Tony, I noticed in your sig line you're looking for the Topps stamps. I have some stashed away and can dig them out. Do you have a wantlist? I have them as singles and not blocks. That's how I saved them as a kid...

    Thanks.
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  • HoofHeartedHoofHearted Posts: 2,537 ✭✭
    I received two copies of "Sports Scoop" magazine today. In it is another article by KO. This is from the June 1973, Issue #5, of Sports Scoop:

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    Amazing...
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  • judgebuckjudgebuck Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭
    Keith O. also had an article in the final issue of Sports Scoop in 1974.

    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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