A national bestseller every year, this price guide offers the most up-to-date information available on baseball cards dating back to the tobacco cards of the late 1800s. Includes valuable tips on buying, selling, swapping and finding cards, plus new evaluations of prices for thousands of cards as well as advice on preserving the collection. Illustrated.

The 2011-2012 volume in the Cooperstown Symposium series is a collection of new scholarly essays that use baseball to examine topics whose import extends beyond the ballpark. The essays represent 16 of the leading presentations from the two most recent proceedings of the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held on June 1-4, 2011, and May 30-June 1, 2012. The essays are divided into six parts. "Baseball History, Myth, and the American Past" considers the distinction between reality and remembrance. "Decade of Transition: The 1960s in Baseball and America" explores a critical passage in the evolution of the nation and the game. "Baseball Economics: Owners, Profits, and the Public" provides perspectives on sports as business. "Out of the Bleachers: Women Umpiring and Playing" links the game to those who participate and care about it despite the expectations of atavistic gender roles. "Casting the Game: Stage and Screen" examines theatrical and cinematic treatments of baseball. Part 6, "Game of Numbers: Statistical Baseball," examines the sport and its artifacts quantitatively.

This expansive, comprehensive guide includes listings for over 90,000 cards from all the most popular series, dating from 1948 to 1995, and features current market values for complete sets and individual cards with more than 270,000 prices listed. Dr. Beckett provides expert advice on market trends as well as a review of the past year in cards. Photos.

Fans of the national pastime make this a national bestseller every year--all year. More than 290,000 prices are listed by the world's leading expert on card collecting. Photos throughout.

The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.

As the huge and thriving audience of dedicated baseball card collectors continues to grow, so do the sales of this, the #1 recognized source for prices and the most valuable information from the nation's most trusted expert. Beckett's Baseball Card Monthly magazine reaches over three million readers each month.

The number one recognized source for prices and the most valuable information fro the nation's most trusted expert, this book includes more than 290,000 prices listed. Illustrated throughout.