1989 SCD article on card grading services

[trdcrdkid]

The April 7, 1989 issue of Sports Collectors Digest contained a lengthy article by Paul Green about card grading services, then a brand-new phenomenon that was just starting to get attention in the hobby. Neither of the two main grading services existing in 1989 are still around today; PSA's founding was still two years away, and SGC was still almost a decade in the future. But people were already talking about some of the same issues that come up today when it comes to grading, and it's interesting to see how they saw those issues back then, and where they thought the hobby would go.

Since the pages are way too big for my scanner, I photographed each page with my phone in two parts and cropped them so they would fit together, more or less, with a line or two of overlap. Sorry the quality isn't better, but I think it's mostly readable.