June pickups

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by familytoad

[ATTACH]65864 [ATTACH]Seattle show pickup on my first Hindu (thanks Rob!) and a BST from Pete C. make nice additions to the SGC HOFcollection (link below)

Unless the back is missing, how can this be a 1? I just don't get this aspect of card grading--the relatively small degree of damage that can bump a card all the way down the scale. I guess the idea must be that this is the minimally acceptable condition for most collectors to consider, so it doesn't matter that 95% (or whatever) of examples of this card discovered will be in this condition or worse, so they should all get the same grade, allowing for much finer condition differences to account for the difference in grades of the other 5%. If this is the theory, I don't agree with it. It seems to me that grades should reflect the condition of the entire population of cards proportionately across the entire spectrum of the scale. Having said all this, I'm a memorabilia guy, so what do I know?