[YazFenway08]

A question for the o-pee-chee experts here...

I like vintage o-pee-chee baseball cards and, as I have posted elsewhere on net54, I am just starting to dabble in graded cards.

my understanding of the "grading process" is that the age and genesis of a particular card is not taken into account by the grader...so for example, a '33 Goudey Ruth with badly rounded corners doesn't get graded a "7" just because its older, etc.

so, when I look at many o-pee-chee examples, particularly from the 70s, in slabs...they have that normal/typical rough-cut edge thing gong on...like they were cut from sheets with a chain saw. Cards that if they were "regular" topps i would never even give a second look at buying. Yet these cards seem to regularly get "7"s and "8"s. To me, that just arent near-mint

not trying to start another pro/con thread on third-party grading...I just don't understand this allowance in the grading. full disclosure...I am a collector that has always focused on edges, corners and no creasing over centering and print defects...so it is highly probable that I still don't understand the grading criteria very well even after reading the various TPG sites.

thanks for looking...and sorry as usual for the rambling..

Mike