Grading Has Clouded Our Minds...

[JollyElm]

I'll just put this here. With only the tiniest bit of difference in the top-to-bottom and side-to-side centering, the card on the bottom sold for just about eighteen times as much as the card on top. Eighteen times as much!! Were these cards not slabbed, 99.99% of us would've looked upon them as essentially being the same exact card, but once PSA deems one 'OC,' the perceived value plummets.

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There's a happy ending, however, as I immediately jumped on and bought the top card the moment I saw it listed!!!

[JollyElm]

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%.

[Mbjerry]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

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%.

Interesting. And interesting thread! Glad it got brought back the top. I learned something today... Don't ignore the ones with qualifiers! Lol

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[JollyElm]

Let's call today's episode Bobknobbing with Roberto...

(These cards were randomly placed in two rows, so there is no underlying rhyme or reason to the layout. As always...no cheating!!)

Okay, I've already ventured into a short version of the 1969 Topps #50 Roberto Clemente a while back, but it is time to revisit it. Before you is an eight-spot of 1969 Bob Clemente cards. Each and every one of them has (at least) one side being (relatively?) dangerously close to a border. The particular sides differ, but they are quite similar in that specific regard.

Each and every one of these cards has been graded a PSA 8, except one - only one - received an OC qualifier.

This isn't a trick question where I am asking which one it is, but rather, given that you know one of them is a PSA 8 OC, which one or two of this octet is the most deserving of that OC qualifier?

[Pat R]

I think #1 and #4 are the most deserving with a slight edge to #4.