How could PSA give this a 4?

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

There is one definite typing error in the list (a "Too Late for Devlin" (Devlin--Giants) is listed twice--once as a 6 and once as a 4. So perhaps this is another typing error. I have alerted Rob Lifson that anyone winning the card as a 4 would be sorely disappointed, and he said he would look at it when it arrioved--oh, the cards have not gotten back, only the list.

I never scanned the WHOLE card--oh, this is MY card, sent with 106 others to REA for auction. Only 28 were chosen by REA for grading, and PSA was used because "T202 collectors like PSA." Really...?

The reason the card was chosen for grading is that Cobb was on it. First, Lifson went through the cards and picked out the nicest=looking cards, regardless of player pictured. Then he went back and got all the Cobbs, the two Johnsons and (I think) all the Mattys. Most of the Speakers (my favorite Speaker is missing from the list, though...)

No attempt was made to disguise the fact that a piece of the lithograph of Cobb was torn, and the torn piece, hanging on to the Cobb still, was stuck, probably in folding the card, onto the center photo. I know grading companies are not too swift on the actual PICTURES on the cards they grade, but this particular Cobby is very green around the gills...sorta seasick looking.
I suppose it should be said that the rest of the card, as i remember, is quite nice..but who would care?