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''The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book'' (Little Brown, 1973) is a book written by Brendan C. Boyd & Fred C. Harris about baseball cards, primarily ones issued during the 1950s and 1960s, and the players on the cards. ==Authors== Neither Brendan C. Boyd nor Fred C. Harris had published any books nor possessed any special expertise in the field of sports or sports memorablia when they decided to write the ''The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book''.〔http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/dickiethon/bubblegum.html (The Dickie Thon Fan Club)〕 In 1970 while both were employed at a Boston, Mass. bookstore, a customer inquired about books on baseball cards. Surprised to learn that there weren't any works on the subject, Harris told Boyd, "we should write one."〔http://www.geocities.com/chrisstufflestreet/archive25.html (The Archive)〕 So they pored over the cards they had collected in their youth and wrote ''The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book''. Although the book doesn't indicate which author contributed which parts, generally Boyd covered players from the American League and Harris those in the National League.〔 Publication of the book was probably aided by the 1972 publication of Roger Kahn's ''The Boys of Summer'', which rekindled interest in 1950s baseball. Brendan C. Boyd is co-author of The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading And Bubblegum Book. Brendan wrote another book, published in 1993, titled ''Blue Ruin: A Novel of the 1919 World Series''. According to the back of ''Blue Ruin'', "Brendan Boyd is a native of Boston who now lives in Paris with his wife, Elaine."〔http://webpages.charter.net/joekuras/blueruin.htm (Blue Ruin)〕 In the introduction to the 1991 reissue edition of ''The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book,'' he noted that his car had been stolen, and along with it his baseball card collection. Fred C. Harris is honored to be known as co-author of "the 'Spinal Tap' of baseball books" - The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading And Bubblegum Book. He has been a professional student, mass merchant, entrepreneur, IT contractor, and founder of two companies. He has been a frequent guest on radio and television, most notably on The Late Show With David Letterman, and The Larry King Show. Seamhead Press re-issued this baseball classic as a Kindle book in April 2015. (Kindle Edition ) When he's not writing, he's either watching the Patriots, the Bruins or the Red Sox, out walking with his wife Gail, or playing his vintage Martin D-18 guitar. When The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading And Bubblegum Book was first published in 1973, it was the first book to look back at Boomer kids growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, playing baseball in the street with no adult supervision. And collecting baseball cards. The book was one of the first to capture the nostalgia for that time. The phrase "Oldies But Goodies" hadn't even been coined yet. And yes, his mother threw all his cards out. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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