Vintage card you need that, apparently, doesn't exist centered

[BillP]

Originally Posted by jingram058

My God! THAT is one card I remember vividly having as a kid. We didn't have a big league team in Memphis. After Russwood Park burned in 1960, we didn't even have a minor league team until the Blues started up in 1969. Every one of my pals and me loved the Cardinals; they were only 300 miles away, and we had their games on TV on Sunday, and KMOX on the radio came in loud and clear at night until WMPS started carrying Cardinals games. So we obsessed over Memphis' own Tim McCarver, not Mickey Mantle, and all the other Cardinals players. For whatever reason, Mike Shannon was one of my favorites. Maybe because he had played for the Memphis Chicks at Russwood before moving up. And I vividly remember him calling games when he retired. This 1967 Topps card of his really stands out. Just like the one I had years ago, the copy I have all these years later is also way OC!!!

I think beyond the Shannon card, other 67 highs that come to mind that are tough centered for me anyway, are/were 580 colavito and 605 stanley. I'd also mention that finding the Shellback card without print defects was tough for me as well.

[Bigdaddy]

A man would have to do a little digging, but I wonder if there is a common thread between the placement on an uncut sheet and the cards that have been mentioned. Are they usually cards at the end of the rows? At the top or bottom row, in the middle of the sheet? If the same cards always seem to come up crooked, there must be an underlying reason; it is not just random. And are they low numbers or high numbers? I can imagine a cutting machine getting slightly out of alignment over time, before someone would notice and step in and realign it.

[bobsbbcards]

Made me look.

[Gorditadogg]

Bob-



Gold medals for you.

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[jb67]

Originally Posted by bobsbbcards

Made me look.

That has got to be the best looking I.A. Vida Blue on the planet. Wow!

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by jb67

That has got to be the best looking I.A. Vida Blue on the planet. Wow!

And somehow the PSA Wizard hath decreed it only an "8."

What silliness.

[bobsbbcards]

Originally Posted by ASF123

And somehow the PSA Wizard hath decreed it only an "8."

What silliness.

On the back someone wrote "My gawd, this card is nicely centered!!" That may have kept it from being graded higher.

[ASF123]

Ha, well played.