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The Guide to United States Popular Culture
"To understand the history and spirit of America, one must know its wars, its laws, and its presidents. To really understand it, however, one must also know its cheeseburgers, its love songs, and its lawn ornaments. The long-awaited Guide to the United States Popular Culture provides a single-volume guide to the landscape of everyday life in the United States. Scholars, students, and researchers will find in it a valuable tool with which to fill in the gaps left by traditional history. All American readers will find in it, one entry at a time, the story of their lives."--Robert Thompson, President, Popular Culture Association. "At long last popular culture may indeed be given its due within ...
Baseball Card Vandals: Over 200 Decent Jokes on Worthless Cards (Baseball Books, Adult Humor Books, Baseball Cards Books)
From the creative duo Mashable called "the Rembrandt and Picasso of vandalized baseball cards." A home run book that combines oddball humor with nostalgic collectibles: Every day since 2012, brothers Beau and Bryan Abbott have drawn crude jokes on their old trading cards from the '80s and '90s and posted them on Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram as Baseball Card Vandals. Now the fruits of this completely unnecessary labor have been collected in this stunningly absurd book of the same name. A collection of over 200 "expertly" vandalized cards—including dozens of never-before-seen artworks—that blend the Vandals' signature oddball humor and artistic flair with a charming dose of sports nostal...
Hall of Fame Baseball Cards
Full-color, detachable facsimile reproductions, both front and back, of 92 authentic baseball cards. Among the players are Hornsby, Young, McGraw, Stengel, Rickey, Gehrig, Williams, Mantle, Spahn, Robinson, Musial, Koufax, Clemente, and many more. There is no duplication of cards with Sugar's Classic Baseball Cards.
The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading, and Bubble Gum Book
Reflections on collecting baseball cards in childhood accompany remarks on the skills and achievements of players whose pictures were found in bubble gum packages
Topps Baseball Cards
A collection of baseball cards organized by year with player statistics and information on teams. Includes quizzes on the sport and the cards.
The Last Baseball Card
Alex and Zac have been best friends for as long as they can remember. Even though they were very different, they had one special bond between them – their love of baseball. While they were growing up they collected baseball cards and dreamt of the day when they too would be major leaguers and have their picture on a baseball card. When they were eleven they were finally chosen to play on the same baseball team. It was a season in which all of their dreams were coming true until the last game. During that game, something happened that changed of both boys forever. Alex must learn to cope with what has happened. As he tries to find a way to cope, the most unlikely appears and is able to help him.
Classic Baseball Cards
Here are reproductions of 98 authentic baseball cards representing 104 great players of baseball's Golden Age, from 1880 to 1940. Included are superstars such as Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, and many other famous names in the history of baseball, from John McGraw and Connie Mack to Rudy York and Leo Durocher. Each card is an authentic reproduction of the original, with a full-color illustration of the player on one side and the original information and advertising on the reverse. This book represents a collection of rare baseball cards which would take years of searching and thousands of dollars to match.
Mint Condition
“An entertaining history of baseball cards . . . An engaging book on a narrow but fascinating topic.” —The Washington Post When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson’s parents sold his childhood home a few years ago, he rediscovered a prized boyhood possession: his baseball card collection. Now was the time to cash in on the “investments” of his youth. But all the card shops had closed, and cards were selling for next to nothing online. What had happened? In Mint Condition, his fascinating, eye-opening, endlessly entertaining book, Jamieson finds the answer by tracing the complete story of this beloved piece of American childhood. Picture cards had long been used for advertising...
Mecca, 1911 Double-Folder Baseball Cards
Inexpensive facsimiles of rare valuable set of cleverly folded cards that allowed two players to be depicted on each. Originals worth thousands of dollars. 100 players include such immortals as Ty Cobb, Frank "Home Run" Baker, Christy Mathewson, Eddie Collins, Miller Huggins, Walter Johnson, many more. Introduction. 100 color illus. Stats on cards. Index of Players.
