When Dale Anderson was a kid growing up in the late 1980s, his dad bought him his first copy of Sports Collectors Digest.
To a young baseball card collector, it was like getting a Christmas gift in the summer.
“I opened it up and there were cards in there. There was a panel of cards and I remember carefully taking them out and putting them in sleeves and holders and taking them to school and trading them like regular baseball cards,” said Anderson, who grew up in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
For young collectors in the 1970s and ’80s, SCD was a godsend because it not only covered the sports collectibles hobby, but was full of ads from dealers selling the one thing they craved most — sports cards.
Anderson remembers reading the magazine from cover to cover, perusing all the ads and ordering cards from advertisers. He still has every issue of the magazine from the late ’80s, adding to his impressive sports collection.
“Sports Collector Digest, along with Beckett, those two magazines helped me become a collector,” Anderson said. “But Beckett didn’t have cards, so I made sure I got SCD.”
Through SCD, Anderson discovered card shops like The Ninth Inning in St. Paul.
“I would look at the ads and I would ride my bike to
