Remember Annuals? (As in Publications Appearing Once a Year)

For Sports Fans, Before the Internet, There Were the Complete Handbooks. (The New York Times, 8/13/2013)

Excerpt:   From 1971 to 1997, Hollander edited sports yearbooks, brick-sized tomes known as Complete Handbooks, which in the pre-Internet era were almost holy objects to a certain type of sports-crazed youngster. Here, in one glorious place, was information — statistics, team rosters, records, schedules, predictions for the coming season and more — freed from the restrictions of newspaper column inches and far beyond what a still embryonic cable television system was providing.

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