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steve kThe question of #1 cards usually being in the poorest condition is not a myth. That is a fact. I was the most active baseball card collector of anyone else I knew as a kid growing up in the 60s. Many of my friends also collected. During the summer, we didn't always have that #1 card on top of the stack. But I kept all of my sixties cards and some of my friends did also. Everyone of us, after the baseball season was over, would always place the cards in numerical order with the #1 card on top. We didn't think at all about "proper" storage techniques, so depending on the size of the stack, the cards were placed in a rubber band or just stored loose in a shoebox. But in general, the #1 card usually took the hardest hit as far as wear.