2012 All-Vintage Standard Catalog

AUPT

I received my editor's allotment of the 2012 Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards yesterday. I am underwhelmed.

To adhere to the publisher-dictated 700 pages, very little of the dormant material in the data base was added. For lack of internal resources, much of my past year's input in terms of new sets, additions to checklists, photos, etc., appears to have dropped into a black hole.

The system which output the data into page form used an entirely new alphabetization protocol which will confound the reader to no end. I predict the Alphabetical Index in the back will be the msot often referred-to pages.

The printing of this edition ends my involvement with the Standard Catalog. If and when a "replacement" editor is named, I'll pass that on here for your future contacts concerning the book.

My thanks to all among you who have contributed to past editions.

justmichael

I look forward to the new edition.Sorry to see you end your involvement with the book.

sschauer513

wow highly disappointing was so looking forward to new sets and fixes guess I can skip it. This book should evolve not just be a rehash every year with some new prices which honestly for vintage how much change is there one year to the next. Sadly they have the framework for a great electronic edition on the web that I think they could make money on but will never happen due to lack of vision the future of print is sadly dieing beckett has grasped this somewhat time for standard catalog to figure it out also.

Sabrgeek

On the Net 54 board; I wrote a long post when the news that this book was a pre-81 book first came out. I mentioned, based on my experiences at Beckett, some of my concerns and apparently they have come to frution

Bob did a great job on this book for years and deserves nothing but praise for his efforts not just this year but also in past years.

I can not comment further until I actually see a full copy of the tome, but I suspect this was not done correctly on several points.

TY Bob for all you did over the years

(Some of this is a rehash of what I posted on Net 54 earlier today)

Rich