Before There Was Bubble Gum: Our Favorite Pre-World War I Baseball Cards

While there is some interesting information in the book there are some big problems 1) there is way too much self-promotion of the author's sports card business 2) in the Kindle edition the pictures of the cards are much too small to be appreciated 3) certain comments and claims are repeated over and over again.

Fast shipping and as advertised.

Very nice book for those of us who collected baseball cards in our youth. Lots of info on the cards and background on the era they were produced and the companies that produced them.

I'm sure it's difficult to wirte a book and I'm no expert, but this book really left me wanting a lot more. I know quite a bit about the history of baseball cards but not so much about the early stuff. This book is a fine and very basic introduction into the field, but that is it. It also has a few to many ads for the card shop that wrote the book, especially for the small size the book is in the first place. It took me about 30 minutes of reading every page to get through this one.

I liked this book because it contained very old baseball card pix. Some of the cards in this book were actually featured in Cooperstown. I would like to recommend this book to those who'll soon be visiting Cooperstown.

Cool pictures of old cards, but was expecting more information about cards and time period, seemed like a giant advertisement for the card shop that made the book.

Anyone who might consider themselves even a novice baseball collector must include this in their reference library.Thank you, greatly.

SUPER FAST SHIPPING,WELL PACKED, ADDED THIS TO MY WALL LIBERARY COLLECTION, FILLED WITH GREAT INFO.EVERYONE SPORTS COLLECTOR NEEDS ONE OF THESE IN THIER COLLECTION.. A SUPER GREAT BOOK

This "book" should be given away free as a promo pamphlet for the author's card business. It is not fair to sell it on amazon as a real book. Probably the worst part is the very small, low quality reproductions of the card sets. The images should be a highlight of a book like this. Instead they are dim, barely visible, postage stamp-size glimpses. You'd need a magnifying glass to appreciate them, and that might not even work. The book is a total waste of time and money.

excellent