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Baseball Annuals and Other Periodicals
7 Lots
 Lot 193. 1923 NY Times Picture History Portfolio, 1961 The Norman Rockwell Album. . Both publications are hardbound. The Portfolio from the Times’ Mid-Week Pictorial contains 480 pages of photos and text covering U.S. history, art, drama, science, sports and current events. The 11” x 16 3/8” publication opens with full-page sepia portraits of the first 30 U.S. Presidents, from Washington through Coolidge. Fifty pages are devoted to sports, with Dempsey, Ruth, Cobb, Bobby Jones and Hagen among the athletes pictured. Vg binding, pages generally ex with some tears. The 192-page Rockwell first edition is vg-ex without the slipcover or special insert. Pages are mostly ex-m and include full-page (10 ½” x 13 5/8”) portraits of Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy.
Winning Bid $61.
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 Lot 200. 1970s-80s Hobby Publications: First CPU, TCMA, Fritch + Card and Show Promos. The first of the baseball card monthly price guides, Card Prices Update debuted in Sept. 29, 1979 with Mickey Mantle on the cover. Seven additional issues of the first 12 are present. They average vg-ex. Also, the March 1985 issue of Current Card Prices, vg, and eight 1988-89 issues of Baseball Card Price Guide, ex. One of the more interesting publications is the Jan. 1981 SCD Express. The cover is creased and barely attached; the rest is ex. There also are two 1987 issues of SCD (ex), seven 1979-80 issues of Baseball Hobby News (vg), three 1984 issues of Baseball Card News (vg), a 1988 Baseball Cards (vg-ex), the Dec. 1976 T’s Paper Americana (vg-ex), the Dec. 27, 1976 Sports Collectors News (vg) and a 1974 promo for The Sports Hobbyist (p). Also: 10 1970s issues of TCMA’s Baseball Advertiser, a 1986 Larry Fritsch catalog, a 1990 Lew Lipset auction, and a 1977 catalog for the Sports Corner, billed as the “first baseball card shop in the U.S.A.” There also are some checklists, promos for Pro Set football, two tickets for a 1982 Eastern PA Sports Collectors Club Show and program for the 1981 “1st Seashore Baseball Card Show” in Ocean City, NJ.
Winning Bid $25.
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