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barrysloateYou know Steve, I looked an awful lot like Brad Pitt before Wonka touched up those photos!
Matt- one of the things I sell on ebay are large cents, which are early American copper pennies. Because they are so dark, they are almost impossible to scan. If I don't enhance the pictures, all you really see is a brown disc without any detail. So in order to show them, we always lighten the picture quite a bit, and then the details come out. You may not have the exact same problem with a baseball card, but my point is sometimes there is a valid reason to do it.