For some reason on my way to work this morning I was thinking about baseball publications I use buy every year. I'm wondering if anyone else is old enough to remember any of these. Yeah -- Sporting News made a "register" and a "guide" every single year and those things were invaluable back in the day. When I was growing up I collected them, and I have every single guide and register going back to the 50s. I used to collect media guides as well, and have most of the MLB media guides from the 80s. Some teams guides would suck, but then some would be awesome, for example the Rangers did a guide one year where they listed every single K Ryan had, and then broke it out by father and sons, HOFers, guys who faced Ryan the most w/o K'ing. The older TSN registers were cool because they had pictures of the dudes -- and every now and then there would be a dude that never had a baseball card made of them, and I would make a photocopy of their register entry, put it on some sort of an index card and send it to them to be signed.