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Baseball
Treasures
Douglas Congdon-Martin and
John Kashmanian
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.,
1992 Baseball
Treasures is an expensive coffee-table sized
book filled with photographs of items from the
baseball memorabilia collection of co-author John
Kashmanian. It is well worth the the hefty $70
cover price if you are a baseball history nut.
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Long-time collector Kashmanian has the one of
the finest baseball memorabilia collections in the
country, with a value totaling somewhere in the millions,
and the purpose of this book was to give the average
baseball historian and fan a chance to share in the joy
of his collection. The 254-page book is simply filled to
the brim with beautifully-taken photographs of little
pieces of baseball history, from the 1840s thru the
1970s, with an emphasis on turn-of-the-century items.
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include Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, and
Honus Wagner, among hundreds of others. Kashmanian
collected anything and everything related to
baseball--uniforms, bats, gloves, photographs,
autographs, letters, balls, posters, advertising
signs, cards, statues, trophies, paintings, cigar
boxes, mugs, china, toys, banks, pins,
pennants--you name it, Kashmanian seems to have
at least one of them.
The format of the book is simple--it is
divided up first into categories of
memorabilia--"Hero Images," "Tools
of the Game," "Baseball for
Sale"--then each chapter begins with a two
to three page introduction to the type of
memorabilia pictured within. Then the photographs
begin. Each page contains at least two and
sometimes up to nine or ten high-quality
photographs of memorabilia that the average
collector will never have a chance to own.
Underneath the photographs, the captions will
tell you a short bit about each item.
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1930s Play Ball Arcade Machine
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An assortment of baseball boxes. Notice
the Honus Wagner
Sporting Goods Co. box on the top.
Baseball Treasures is
by far the best book on baseball memorabilia that I have
ever run across. If you are a collector of baseball
memorabilia or simply a fanatic about baseball history,
you will get a huge kick out of this book.
--JingleBob, May 15, 1999
Baseball Treasures may
be available for purchase on the net at one of these sites.
© 1999 JC White
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