(Free read ebook) Card Sharks: How Upper Deck Turned a Child's Hobby into a High-Stakes, Billion-Dollar Business
☆ Pete Williams ☆
| #990056 in Books | 1995-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x6.25 x.75l, | File Name: 0026290618 | 288 pages | Taking the reader from the birth of sports cards in the 1880s to the present, the author investigates the success in the shady world of baseball cards.
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Finally on Kindle|By Ary D. Rosenbaum|Thankfully, it's finally released on Kindle. Great story on the inner workings of Upper Deck from its founding until 1994. It starts with the history of baseball cards and the founding of Upper Deck. It's a book about great ideas, greed, and greed. Since the story end at the great strike of 1994, it would be great to have a sequel about ho||"Card Sharks is the full-length expose we'd been waiting for. It will make you sick. But a good kinda sick; sicker but wiser. Williams provides 270 pages of details on perhaps the sports industry's ultimate insult to modern America."||- Phil Mushnick,
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.
Published in 1995 when Williams was a writer and columnist for USA Today Baseball Weekly<...
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