[PDF.85cd] A House of Cards: Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture (American Culture)

A House of Cards: Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture (American Culture)

[PDF.me28] A House of Cards: Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture (American Culture)

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 | #5133078 in Books |  1997-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.72 x.63 x5.54l,.84 | File type: PDF | 142 pages

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||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Tough Read at Times but Good for Baseball Card Collectors|By Andy E.|Read this book if you meet ALL of these criteria:
1. You collect baseball cards or collected in the early 90's
2. You can take someone indirectly picking at card collecting as a hobby
3. You could read a really long sociology journal paper

If you can't take any of those points then|From Kirkus s|A study of baseball-card collecting in the upper Midwest becomes ``an ethnographic account of a local fan culture'' by dint of Bloom's wearisome academese. Bloom (American Studies/Dickinson Coll.) latches onto the perhaps obvious premise that ``wh

Explores the connection between baseball card collecting and nostalgia among men of the baby boom.

"Collectors often decried how money had ruined their hobby, making it hard for them to form meaningful friendships through their cards. Money, however, made the hobby not only profitable but also more serious, more instrumental, and therefore more manly. The same collectors who complained about greed often bragged in the same interview about the value of their cards. Yet ...

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