Mike Cramer

Cramer's Choice

Memoir of a Baseball Card Collector Turned Manufacturer

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Produktbeschreibung

Mike Cramer's first love was baseball cards. Before high school he had a mail-order trading card business. At age 30 he founded Pacific Trading Cards with money he made fishing crab in the Bering Sea. From 1980 to 2004, Pacific created more than 200 successful trading card products. In 2021, a Pacific Tom Brady rookie card sold for $117,000. Pacific's cards remain some of the hobby's most sought-after and other companies still emulate their innovations. Cramer's memoir offers a behind-the-scenes look at the birth of a major card company, from one kid's overgrown collection to every hands-on facet of building a business with hundreds of employees producing cards for retail stores worldwide.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781476693576
• ISBN-10: 1476693579
• Artikelnr.: 69129267

Autorenporträt

Retired president and CEO of Pacific Trading Cards, Mike Cramer lives in Edmonds, Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction
1.
The Early Years
2.
Dutch Harbor, Alaska: King Crab Fishing
3.
A Family on the Edge of the World
4.
Sea Legs and Land Legs
5.
The Move to Seattle
6.
The Million Dollar Topps Deal: Game Changer #1
7.
The DF-1 Card Wrapping Machine: Game Changer #2
8.
The Kid and the Candy Store
9.
1991 Pacific Plus Football Cards 10.
Growing by Leaps and Bounds 11.
Playing with the Big Boys 12.
Major League Baseball Players Association License: My Dream Comes True 13.
Turning and Burning 14.
What a Way to Start a Century! 15.
Pacific After Baseball 16.
Life After Pacific 17.
The Comeback Kid Epilogue 2000 Pacific Tom Brady Rookie Cards Checklist Index