Here's something good that has come from the whole coronavirus mess -- the archives of Baseball Digest have been made available to everyone for free. I saw this in the newspaper yesterday and signed up immediately. I could spend days down this rabbit hole.
Renata Galasso had full page ads in just about every baseball-type magazine. I bought a complete set from them in 1979.
The year before, I bought my very first complete set from GS Gallery.
I had this card box and had all my cards dutifully collated by teams.
I strongly suggest you take some time, go to https://baseballdigest.com/, get a free accoun, and browse the archives.
I didn't know there were 9 pocket pages back in the 70's, cool.
ReplyDeleteThere were, and the cards were slid into the sides of the pockets, not the top like on today's sheets
DeleteI saw Baseball Digest was opening things up the other day. I haven't gotten to it yet, but I plan to go right to 1977.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info! I shared this on TCDB:
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Baseball Digest is one of my favorite magazines of all-time. One of the articles inspired me to collect Al Kaline a few years ago. This is really cool that Baseball Digest is opening up their archives. I cancelled my subscription last year, so I haven't read the last couple of issues. I'm super excited.
ReplyDeleteP.S. That baseball card file is awesome! I don't think I ever owned one of those, but I had the ones sold in Sears catalogs in the early 80's. They had two rows with little compartments and a handle at the top.