Grading reprints

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Posted By: runscott

Question - what do you mean by the following?: "I'm not wild about the idea of new collectors using it as a reference point to see scarce poses for the first time".

There are only two good resources I know of to locate good OJ images: the loc and Slocum's book "Classic Baseball Cards" (each shows different images). I only plan to create 1-2 cards of each player to begin with, and it won't necessarily be a scarce pose - it will be the best or most interesting image available (I already have the next 100 images picked out). Some of the loc images are of cards so badly damaged that I won't be attempting to use them. After I hit 200 or so it will take longer for me to accumulate good images to create cards. By that time perhaps some of you will be contributing, perhaps not. Or maybe I'll get bored and give up on it. But at the very least, there will be a single HOF'er set of 26 cards.

I would like my cards to be informational as well, but I haven't worked that end out yet - at minimum, a sheet will be provided with each run of 24, containing bios and/or stats. But I would prefer this info to be on the back of the card (maybe stickers?).