Which Topps issue has the worst centering?

[skelly423]

Speaking as a collector trying to build a centered set, the answer is hands down 1952. Even on the best cards, you'd be lucky to have 20% of the population of a given card with 45/55 centering or better. The worst cards may only have a dozen examples across the entire set run (Eddie Mathews comes to mind).

In my very unscientific opinion, maybe 10% of all 1952 cards printed were well centered. Even when you find centered examples, many of them are diamond cut.

[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by skelly423

In my very unscientific opinion, maybe 10% of all 1952 cards printed were well centered. Even when you find centered examples, many of them are diamond cut.

And even more often than that, when you do find a centered example, it seems to have been so 'well loved' that the the wrinkles, creases and rounded corners weigh it down.