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Rob DewolfI'm new to this board (a month or so) and am enjoying it immensely. One thing I've noticed quite a bit when it comes to questions about "How many exist ..." are references to population reports from PSA or other grading services. Considering how long people have been collecting baseball cards, the amount of time that grading services have been a part of the hobby is relatively short. Add to that fact the reality that many collectors wouldn't even consider having their cards graded, it seems like using a population report as a starting point to determine the number of cards or sets in existence is a flawed practice. I make this point only because it seems like the majority of the members of this board are proponents of graded cards (and for good reasons). But because of that, it might be easy to forget the huge number of people who own tremendous collections and couldn't care less about having them graded.