Amazing what a 1990 Beckett looks like

[BBCgalaxee]

Totally dedicated towards kids and several pages of readers write (my favorite).

Here's some pics, anyone want autos?

 

[A_Pharis]

Mantle for $28. Dear Lord.

 

[Brewer Andy]

Loved Readers Write

 

[Austin]

Mantle for $28. Dear Lord.

And that was after the hobby exploded in the late '80s.
Mantle and DiMaggio were both only $15 in 1986, and collectors and magazines had a fit about how expensive some former players were charging for their autograph.

 

[RiceLynnEvans75]

Love the old Becketts. Found a bunch about a year ago from that same time period as the one you posted from, great to look at.

 

[DeliciousBacon]

One thing that always drives me crazy in the old Becketts is the show calendar. I have a January 1992 right in front of me (the famous Nolan Ryan cowboy cover), and there were 12 shows scheduled in RI that month. 12 shows in one month, in Rhode Island? We don't even have 12 shows in a full year here, and the few we have aren't worthy of being called card shows.

 

[cgilmo]

sigh, this was before agents were insane

 

[smapdi]

I just bought a Beckett from 1991, July or August, I think (Gwynn and McGriff on the cover), for nostalgia. It was fun looking at actual articles. Remember the cycle they had most months, A First Look, A Second Look, A Closer Look, A Look Back, or whatever? And the pricing pages were detailed down to the nickel, with lots of space and human-sized fonts.

 

[jrosales]

I had all the becketts from '89 to around early '94. This brings back a ton of memories- back when collecting was fun.

 

[fordman]

Koufax and Williams as the big signers and Griffey Jr is just a footnote signer, I remember those days!

Fordman

 

[BBCgalaxee]

Since I collect these and just about any card magazine from the 80s to 90s, I have hundreds of them. About every year I re read them.

Any really interesting info I'll occasionally post here to relive the fun days when you got excited when a card went from .35 to .50

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[brian26]

Love the old Becketts. Found a bunch about a year ago from that same time period as the one you posted from, great to look at.

They are indeed great reading. I have several from '91-'93....just a blast to read through.

 

[SouthSideSluggers]

how about when you were a kid and you got the newest Beckett (read it cover to cover 10 times) and then discovered the cards in your collection had the little UP Arrow next to it...loved that feeling

 

[mouschi]

Ahhh....memories. I distinctly remember that pic of the child with a bunch of binders. When I had that beckett and first saw that pic, I had visions of my collection all nice and neat in binders just like that. If I'm not mistaken, I believe there was a 1983 Topps Traded Darryl Strawberry featured somewhere there too. I was thinking man ... that kid has it all! Looks at the LIBRARY of cards he has there at his finger tips just to look through anytime he wants!

 

[nappyd]

And that was after the hobby exploded in the late '80s.
Mantle and DiMaggio were both only $15 in 1986, and collectors and magazines had a fit about how expensive some former players were charging for their autograph.

Gas was also cheaper and the dollar was worth more. Ahh inflation..

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[mouschi]

GAAAH I can't believe in 1990, these would have cost me $18 total to get signed! Where are you, time machine????

 

[lambert58]

a 1983 Topps Traded Darryl Strawberry

Funny, I have this card listed on Ebay right now ending in about 20 minutes

 

[JEBJJA]

Last year I sold all my Beckett magazines that I had piled up and stored since my first issue (April 1986, George Brett on cover). My dad bought it for me after I had a couple hits in my little league game with some packs. Anyway, I sold a total of about 150 magazines (was lucky to get $80 for the lot) and the only one I kept was a Will Clark and Kevin Mitchell issue with my name in it because I had won a 6 month free subscription that they chose me in their monthly contest. I was so excited back then to so my name in my "Bible"....lol

 

[u2me57]

I've got the little fat Beckett book from 1990 that says Dr. James Beckett on the front, $5.95 was the price.