Since it's essentially a freebie, I broke down and decided to get the 2011 version. When I found it on the B&N website I didn't see any montion of a CD. Finding this odd, I hunted around on the net and still saw no mention of a CD at all. Another interesting tidbit I found is that the page count for the 2011 version is almost 300 pages larger than in 2010. 1848 pages up from 1560. I hunted around for the 2011 version during my Christmas shopping and didn't see one so I've struck out both online and in meatspace.
So, my question is: has the CD been kiboshed? Have the the 21st century sets finally been printed on 15th century technology? I suppose I could go straight to the source with this question but he's probably busy with important things like digging up examples of oddball regional cards from the '50s and creating custom '55 Topps All-American cards. I'll ask you lot first before pestering Bob. Anyone have this thing? Any plastic come with the tome?
Even if there is a CD, I'm probably going to have to buy it. A Hank card is on the cover. Now what the heck am I going to do with the other eighteen dollars and nineteen cents.....
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They must have gotten rid of it. But don't hold me to that. I was looking at the product description online and it clearly states that and I quote "In the pages of this mammoth guide you'll find listings for cards, including Tobacco and Bubble Gum cards and Specialty Issues, released between 1863-2010 and minor league listings." No mention of a CD which in the 2010 listing is clearly listed. But with only 300 new pages for over 10years of baseball seems like too few. I mean in those 10 years the big 3 put out a gazillion sets.
My question is when are they going to update the football, hockey and basketball catalogs? Especially football.
They could have squished the type a little bit on the existing listings to get more in the book. Also, there were a lot less products released in 2001-2010 than there were in 1991-2000. Just due to attrition alone. I'mma buy it anyway, I'm just curious.
I have not seen a 2011 book during my shopping either, but with the large increase in pages I think they may have chunked the CD. Of course I was cheap and picked up a used copy of the 2010 version on Amazon for 99 cents.
That's true I guess there were a mega gazillion sets put out the in the 90's. The CD wasn't a bad idea there was a ton of stuff on it and to have it all printed it would have been a foot thick. I ended up printing it off, since I bought the 2010 edition last year, and it was a huge amount of pages double sided. And they probably did shift the borders if you could get one more row per page that would make a ton of room in a 1800 page book. I don't plan on getting new version till 2020 or so. I don't really use it as a price guide, more as a reference book. It's pretty freaking awesome. Although it's nice to know what a common 1964 Topps card is going for.
I finally got one for Christmas. It was a 2010 version though so I can't help you with your question. I can however quit annoying you with questions about cards I can't identify.
If you don't mind having a yr old catalog you can get one for $7 off Amazon - of course it is the 2010 model and you are risking not getting the CD.
Picked one up to look at it at work (at Barnes and Noble mind you) the other day and no CD. Unless we have a thief in the store, and that could happen it looks to be all print this year!
The CD wasn't worth the price of admission (I have the 2009 or 2010 version, cant remember off the top of my head). It had a PDF on it. Searching was a nightmare. I had hoped for checklists, searchable databases, etc. Nope. Just a pdf version of the book I was staring at. Yay me.
I'm a little late to the show but it's all in print this year. No CD's, just paper, lots and lots of paper. This was the only present I got this year and it was a good one!
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