Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession

"An entertaining history of baseball cards . . . An engaging book on a narrow but fascinating topic." —The Washington Post

When award-winning journalist Dave Jamieson's parents sold his childhood home a few years ago, he rediscovered a prized boyhood possession: his baseball card collection. Now was the time to cash in on the "investments" of his youth. But all the card shops had closed, and cards were selling for next to nothing online. What had happened?

In Mint Condition, his fasc...