Today, I harken back to post #141 (and the ensuing follow ups there), to show an oddity I ran across. Graded versions of the
1961 Topps #160 Whitey Ford card are so often found with qualifiers attached to them (with an inordinate amount of 'PDs'). Here's mine (I'll refrain from screaming about how much I disagree with the assessment. Been there, done that.)...
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But then I looked at the POP reports for Whitey, and I was stunned even more. Take a look at the number of cards in higher grades, as a percentage, that received qualifiers. Yowza!!!!! Almost half of all 9's have a qualifier attached, and 39% of all 8's have one.* That's gotta be some sort of a curiously strange record.
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This entire post was off the cuff, so can anyone think of other cards that have been hammered as much as the wonderful Mr. Ford??
*The overall percentage across all grades is just about one in ten, a hair shy of 10%.