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07-22-2025, 01:21 PM
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I would agree the ‘71 Munson is particularly difficult to find well-centered. I seem to see plenty of sharp copies of this card in shops and at shows, but many are MC or badly OC. ‘71 in general is a bear for centering. It’s not uncommon to find all of the stars badly OC. I had a particularly tough time with the #280 Fergie Jenkins card for whatever reason. The one that came with my set was like 95/5 s-s. I upgraded it eventually for a better centered one, but it’s still not perfectly centered.
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07-22-2025, 03:13 PM
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One that definitely flies under the radar in the world of tough-to-find-centered cards (at a cheap price, I mean) is the knuckling Hall of Famer, #248 Hoyt Wilhem.
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07-23-2025, 08:51 AM
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I checked and my #248 was mostly spared by the centering gods for whatever reason…  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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07-23-2025, 07:06 PM
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Beckett used to publish a magazine called Graded Card Investor & Price Guide, and back in 2007 they did a nice data-rich piece on graded 1971 cards.
They focused on heavily/moderately/sparsely submitted cards, and among other things looked at tough cards within those respective cohorts. Within those tough card groups I suspect you'll see a lot of the cards that are difficult to find well-centered. (Claude Raymond was/is one of the more-notorious examples.) Of course the data is almost 20 years old (!) at this point, but it's sill an interesting and potentially relevant read.
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07-24-2025, 01:50 AM
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I made a list of approximately 75 cards that I found to be a bit more difficult to find centered. I'm not going to list all of the cards on my list, but here are some of them:
131 Blefary 133 Lolich 141 Quilici 187 Abernathy 246 Taylor 320 McNally 351 B. Williams 351 Shellenback 377 Garrett 451 Keough 513 Ryan 537 Egan 539 Brown 557 Satriano 564 Fitzmorris 568 Campisi 577 Lonborg 580 T. Perez 585 W. Davis 608 Wegener 617 Darymple 632 Jarvis 634 Regan 635 Murcer 650 Allen 651 Robertson 681 Butler 719 J. May 727 Lamb 734 Gardener 735 Shannon 750 McClain More information to follow tomorrow PST. Good night. Phil aka Tere1071 Last edited by Tere1071; 07-24-2025 at 01:51 AM.
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07-24-2025, 11:10 AM
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nice copies are getting more expensive
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