[dabigyankeeman]

Sometimes for me its worth it on expensive cards to accept pieces missing. I have a 33 Goudey Babe Ruth with the bottom part that says "Big League Chewing Gum" cut off, and i have a 34 Goudey Lou Gehrig with the corners cut off caddy-corner, all 4 of them. But I wont buy inexpensive cards that are like this. However lessor cards that have many creases can be fine, just dont want pieces missing.

I started collecting with the theory of "as long as i have the card i dont care about condition" and i bought a ton of bad cards with big creases and other defects. But after a couple of decades, i wound up up-grading a lot of them. My upgrades though still most of the time were not to cards in perfect condition, but rather to cards with small defects that didnt bother me. But still, i do feel its better to own a card in any condition than to not own it at all.