tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12204510.post3325918692678836103..comments2024-03-28T05:32:57.005-04:00Comments on Nachos Grande: A Baseball Card Blog: Barry Larkin Collection 245: 1989 Baseball Card Magazine - #17Nachos Grandehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02911007368272468591noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12204510.post-72490724768041889822014-03-09T13:40:56.107-04:002014-03-09T13:40:56.107-04:00And.....Topps and MLB made them stop. There was a...And.....Topps and MLB made them stop. There was a proliferation of magazine cards... Baseball Card Magazine, Ballstreet, SI for Kids, Legends, etc. It was at the same time as the proliferation of unlicensed cards from Broder and the like. Many of the cards were better looking that what Topps and the other majors were putting out (iirc, Ballstreet used a pretty thick card stock, some foil and some embossment). And the investor class was buying them up like licensed cards. It was getting pretty much out of hand, to be honest. Lots of things were out of hand in the eighties. Plus Topps had their own magazine starting up and they wanted to included cards. So Topps and MLB put their feet down. Obviously, even then, magazines were not big profit makers, so paying the kind of royalties involved was pretty much out of the question. A few, like SI for Kids, went to non-baseball subjects. Tough to do if your name is Baseball Cards Magazine. BCM were the ones I missed the most.Stubbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07010142558613227433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12204510.post-29226383706535648142014-03-09T08:17:31.696-04:002014-03-09T08:17:31.696-04:00I've always liked the baseball card magazine i...I've always liked the baseball card magazine issuesMark Hoylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05562266064195629037noreply@blogger.com