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Contents: 1. Updated Auction and Show Calendar
2.
 Announcing!! The Old Cardboard Magazine3. OC's featured Set of the Month
4. Floorplan of National Convention in Cleveland July
21-25
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1. Updated Auction and Show Calendar*
The following is a summary of vintage card events coming up in the next 30-45 days. For details on all upcoming vintage card shows and
auctions, see the auction
calendar on our website)
July 8th
Internet
19thCenturyOnly Internet Auction
 July 12th
Internet/Catalog Lelands 2004
All Star Auction
July
21-25th Cleveland,
OH The 25th
National Sports Collectors Convention
Aug
20-21
Internet
Hunt Auctions Live Catalogue Auction
Aug
27-29 Arlington,
TX
Tri-Star Show, Arlington Convention Center
*To add an auction or vintage show date to our calendar just send an email to editor@oldcardboard.com and we'll be happy to post it for you. The
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Our most exciting news this month is the announcement of the launch of Old Cardboard Magazine--the hard copy companion to Old Cardboard eNews and the Old Cardboard website. Old Cardboard Magazine is published quarterly (four issues per year) beginning with the Fall 2004 issue (Issue #1). Sign up now and become a Charter Subscriber (and first issue is free!) for the newest and most comprehensive resource dedicated to the vintage baseball card hobby.
As a Charter Subscriber, the very first issue of Old Cardboard Magazine is yours for FREE. Your one-year subscription of four additional issues will extend through Issue #5 (Fall 2005). To qualify as a Charter Subscriber, your order must be among the first 250 paid subscriptions.
Each magazine will focus exclusively on baseball card sets produced through the first half of the nineteenth century. It will include detailed articles and stunning full color images of many of the rarest cards in the hobby.
The cover (above) and a preview of some of the articles planned for the
Your subscription will help support the vintage card hobby as a whole, and will help Old Cardboard continue to deliver top-notch information on vintage baseball cards and memorabilia. Because it costs more than twice as much to produce an all-color magazine as one in black and white, our $23.50 subscription cannot be beat. To order yours right now through PayPal, just visit
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3. OC's featured Set of the Month
Our Set of the Month for July is the Babe Ruth Flip Movie" set produced in 1932 by Wheaties brand cereal. With just one "card" in the set, it represents one of the earliest products in the company's long association with baseball.
The Ruth Flip Movie will be detailed in an article in Issue #1 of Old Cardboard Magazine, with a full checklist of frames. A little known feature of this flip book is that each frame contains a caption with a different batting tip--said to be the
advice of the Babe himself. The checklist in the magazine will include the full text of the Babe's advice found on each of the 24 frames in the movie. The flip movie can be viewed from beginning to end in its full animated format here. Key features of the set are seen at:
https://www.oldcardboard.com/f/cereals/wheaties/ruth-movie/ruth-movie.asp?cardsetID=1096.
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(editor's note: the floor plan graphic is no longer available)
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