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Baseball card collecting has become a pursuit taken seriously by American men of the baby boom generation. This work employs interviews with collectors, dealers, and hobbyists to ask what this hobby tells us about nostalgia, work, play, masculinity, and race and gender relations among collectors.

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The baseball card industry; venues of exchange and adult collecting; collecting sets; adult male baseball card collecting; nostalgia, and the cultural politics of gender and race during the 1970s and 1980s.

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/03/1997
      ISBN13: 9780816628711, 978-0816628711
      ISBN10: 0816628718

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Baseball card collecting has become a pursuit taken seriously by American men of the baby boom generation. This work employs interviews with collectors, dealers, and hobbyists to ask what this hobby tells us about nostalgia, work, play, masculinity, and race and gender relations among collectors.

      Table of Contents
      The baseball card industry; venues of exchange and adult collecting; collecting sets; adult male baseball card collecting; nostalgia, and the cultural politics of gender and race during the 1970s and 1980s.

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