High Grade Mets Yearbooks

PaulMaul

When I was a kid I loved these. I would make scrapbooks by cutting out the yearbook photos, newspaper articles, etc. I've been trying for awhile to put together a high grade run of the yearbooks I had as a kid, which is 1970-1983. Have made some good progress. Would be interested in seeing nice stuff anyone else has in a similar vein.

PaulMaul

Lefthander

I like the smell of old yearbooks and programs.

Dboneesq

I also have a few of The Mets Yearbooks. The earliest one I have is from the first game my dad brought me to when I was 5 years old. That was 1963 and The Mets played in the old Polo Grounds that year. I was going to scan it for you to see (it's in pretty decent shape) but it's packed away and I didn't feel like going thru my closet.

PaulMaul

I haven't found any pre-1970 that are in really nice shape. The '60's ones are cool, but the '70s books are the ones I remember most fondly...

PaulMaul

PaulMaul

I think this is the first year I actually got the yearbook new at Shea...the 1970-1972 books I had picked up second hand....

grote15

I've got a couple of these socked away somewhere. Love the ads inside!

PaulMaul

<< <i>I've got a couple of these socked away somewhere. Love the ads inside! >>



Yeah, heavy on the Schaeffer and Rheingold!

PaulMaul

GDM67

I've been doing the same thing the last couple of months. Some of my recent pickups.





The vertical line on the '68 is from a hiccup on the seller's scanner.

PaulMaul

<< <i>I've been doing the same thing the last couple of months. Some of my recent pickups.

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Nice! How tough to find are these for the Braves? I wonder if there are any teams where the yearbooks are overall easier to find? Like anything, there are specific years that are tougher than others. For the later Mets books, 1980 seems to be the toughest.

GDM67

The main thing I noticed is that any with predominantly white covers are a little harder to find in higher condition. If I had to guess, I would say that the ones covering Aaron's pursuit of Ruth ('71-'74) were probably produced in higher numbers, but that's just what that is, a guess.

There are some years I haven't found but I'm not sure if that's because they're scarce or because they weren't produced. For example, '92 and '94 are about the only years from the '90's that I've found books for.