Cramer's Choice

Memoir of a Baseball Card Collector Turned Manufacturer

Mike Cramer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

253 Seiten

2023
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-9357-6 (ISBN)

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Mike Cramer’s first love was baseball cards. Before high school he had a mail-order trading card business. By age 30 he founded Pacific Trading Cards. His 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.

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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	09.10.2023
Zusatzinfo	51 photos, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
ISBN-10	1-4766-9357-9 / 1476693579
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-9357-6 / 9781476693576
Zustand	Neuware