Vintage magazines?
PatsGuy5000
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Lots of vintage SI, Sporting News, Sport, Baseball Magazine, baseball digest, etc. with Ruth, Aaron, Mays, Mantle, Williams, Musial, etc. on the cover for low prices. Any future demand for this? May pick up some at prices this low.
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I pick up old magazines like this all of the time. I like to read the articles, and many of the advertisements included are sources of unintentional comedy. I have no idea if there will ever be a monetary payoff, but I like it, and that is all that matters to me.
Interesting question.
Have no idea other than if one has a pristine copy with some kind of star/historical significance and gets it graded?
Then there may be some kind of demand IMO. Have no idea what it costs to have graded?
I have mags since I don't throw anything away. Some that I really like are in boxes - hard to display.
Life mags are large and really hard to store. I do have the 62 Life with the tab still intact with Mantle/Maris. Also, a really nice first edition SI when they found a bunch in storage back around 1993/4?
I do think some of our hobby first editions are fun to have - not for any ROI but rather for historical perspective.
Somewhere in this or some parallel dimension, there's a forum dedicated "just" to publications?
The Mantle/Maris Life Magazine is a nice item, will keep on my Watch list
I picked up as many publications with Killebrew on the cover as I could about 15 years ago. Seems like demand for this kind of item has gone down.
Having stars on the covers were good and used for autographs. As well as articles with photos inside the publication. IIRC 1972 or 73 Life Magazine had a nice write up of Willie Mays with photo of him hitting a HR as a Met. I have 3 storage boxes in storage of books,Baseball Digest and others from the 1940's and up. Great historical info./photos in many of them. Mantle,Musial, Mays, Bob Gibson etc. Somewhere there is a market for these, just have to do some searching. Check Ebay listings.
I love some of the covers on older ones.
Just dying for an auto on them
Last year I bought a Ron Guidry sportsman of the year that he signed and added Louisiana Lightning to it.
1948-76 Topps FB Sets
FB & BB HOF Player sets
1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
I’m huge into vintage mags, especially the Football ones. What I find is that most of the less known guys that found their way onto a card sometimes have very good articles on them and you can find a lot of information about the player than you can on google. In lots of cases some of these players were hot draft picks but never panned out and you get a lot of good reads about them. Love vintage mags
I was lucky enough to get some nice SPORT magazines from the 50's long ago. Back then they had about 8 to 10 really nice full color photos in each issue. Here are a few I got signed over the years.
Really nice historical pics especially Duke Snider. Even better with a signature. Thanks for sharing.
Nice magazines with autos, thanks for sharing
I have the first Beckett Basketball. It has Jordan on the cover.
I collect hall of fame rookie cards, https://www.instagram.com/stwainfan/
I have that issue as well, good one to keep!
Here's the April 13, 1962 Life magazine insert.
While I really like having it - I haven't decided if it was worth somehow putting up for display?
It's really amazing how many of these are still around. I love those ad back cards! I've purchased a couple of the magazines...just for the cards. I hate to say it but I then trashed the magazines.
Are you considering sending in the card for grading?
No.
I'll keep it in the magazine.
Maybe later I might remove and display? Possibility.
Thanx for asking.
I also think vintage magazines are very low priced. I try to pick up 1950s baseball/sport magazines with stars such as Mantle, Williams, etc., on the cover. Although they may be low priced, I don't see them appreciating in value much over the years.
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.
I have a load of Beckett price guides from the late 80's early 90's. I bet they were as over produced as the cards I was looking up in them. It's fun to look at some of the prices before the normal supply and demand curve caught up.
Kris
My 1971 Topps adventure - Davis Men in Black
I think I had a thread on some of the early copies of the hobby publications we used to read like SCD, Beckett, BB Cards, Tuff Stuff...
Here's the first Beckett - back then a Nm copy of 52T Mantle booked for $1200.
And here's my "first" copy of BB Cards - I wrote a thing on Bob Lemke who was the impetus behind Krause Publications' decision to launch this magazine.
And, I don't have the first but do have the "second" edition of Tuff Stuff:
It's about the size of our old SCDs - a whopping 12 pages!
If I can find my old thread, I might see if I can resurrect with an update?