[scotgreb]

Even PSA considers cards issued the year after the player's final year, to be "career contemporary"

Not to nit-pick your comment [Steve] but that is not completely true -- as I've been down this road in great detail with PSA. Your comment is correct for player sets but not for HOF sets, i.e., the 1973 Clemente is included in his Master Set composite but would not be acceptable toward the Restricted (playing years) HOF Registry set.

I believe that PSA makes the exception for the player sets because they often show the career stats and not because they consider them contemporary issues.

Admittedly, PSA seems pretty inconsistent with this policy. I've offered to review and "clean up" the stated playing years associated with the HOF Restricted registry but that offer fell on deaf ears.

Scott