Posted By:
Jim Crandell1)PSA saved the vintage baseball card hobby drawing hundreds of collectors back to the hobby who had given it up due to all the card alteration.
2)I think their grading has steadily improved and is on a par with the other two grading companies.
3)The Set Registry was a stroke of genius by David Hall and Joe Orlando has dramatically expanded it. The dominance of PSA is directly attritutable to the Set Registry and for most popular pre-war and post-war sets it has the best sets in the hobby for the most part. The Registry performs a lot of useful functions as far as cataloging sets but is a great means of competition for not only regular sets but player, team, HOF sets etc.
4)The company will remain the dominant card grading company into the forseeable future. They simply have too big a lead and the registry gives them a huge advantage.