October 16, 2021

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Bob Lemke (standing, wearing a Braves jersey) was an early pioneer in the sports cards hobby. Helping to advance the hobby, Lemke attended many card shows to get Sports Collectors Digest and Baseball Cards magazine into the hands of collectors.
Collector Stories

Former SCD editor shares some of his memories of Bob Lemke, a hobby pioneer

Jan 23, 2017
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Baseball Cards Magazine and The Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards helped bring the hobby to the mainstream

Dec 3, 2019
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News

Bob Lemke, former SCD editor and publisher, passes away

Jan 4, 2017
The first step in creating a hypothetical print layout involves including mock-ups for the six pulled cards and then matching SP and DP base colors in the fourth print run. The four rows of SPs are the first four rows followed by two rows of DPs. A few SPs have to be moved to DPs and vice versa. (Layouts for the six cards that were later pulled – courtesy of Bob Wong.)
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1953 Topps Baseball Mystery Solved

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Revisiting the 1950s Berk Ross Trading Cards

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