Card Sharks: Inside the High-stakes World of the Sports Card Industry

by Dr Peter Williams

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Taking the reader from the birth of sports cards in the 1880s to the present, Williams investigates the success in the shady world of baseball cards. At the center of the industry is Upper Deck, the largest manufacturer, with sales of over $260 million each year. Williams exposes how the power brokers in the game of baseball have changed this once-innocent hobby forever. Photos.
  • ISBN10 0026290618
  • ISBN13 9780026290616
  • Publish Date 1 May 1995
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 16 December 1999
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Imprint Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English