milladrive
12-12-2006, 01:16 PM
Every Mets yearbook ever issued, including all variations (revisions, misprints, errors, Spanish editions, newsstand issues, etc).
In 45 seasons, there have been a total of 121 issues. :eek:
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brewcrew82
12-13-2006, 01:31 AM
Did you start collecting them from the inaugural season or one year later did you decide to start collecting?
Sound like an awesome collection you have.
milladrive
12-13-2006, 02:27 PM
Did you start collecting them from the inaugural season or one year later did you decide to start collecting?
Sound like an awesome collection you have.
Thanx much brewcrew82. :)
Actually, the collection began on Opening Day '74, sometime around my tenth birthday. Each susbsequent year, I would acquire the next season's book on Opening Day.
I began collecting in earnest, though, about twenty years later, when I had a hankering to acquire the books from the first dozen years. It was then, after contacting collectors and publishers, as well as doing a whole lot more legwork, that a can of worms opened and it became apparent there was a lot more to Mets yearbooks than met the casual eye.
The most difficult year to complete was 1962 (of course), in which there are five issues, one of which is easily the most difficult to locate and even harder to acquire. Second is 1966, during which five issues were released each with four variations, making for a robust total of 20 issues that year. There are some other difficult years as well, beyond the Sixties. ...But just about every year has something relatively unknown to the general public, which, in my opinion, is what made/makes collecting them so much fun.
That count of 121, after years of research, is to the best of my knowledge the total number of issues available. It includes everything from the first issue of 1962 thru the most recent issues of 2006, all of which I proudly possess in at least Ex conditon or better.
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