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1952 Bowman #205 Walt Masterson (Red Sox)Price = $ 9.95EX/MINT to EX/EX+
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 Using a system of grading codes based on those established by price guides such as Beckett, Tuff Stuff, Sports Collector’s Digest, collectors can determine the approximate condition of items offered by interpreting the following grades. Grading is very subjective and there can also be grades in between the levels below. MINT (MT) - while we rarely use this grade, occasionally it can be found for items that we appraise as appearing nearly perfect to the naked eye. With respect to cards, it would be defined as one with 50/50 centering all around, razor-sharp corners, a photo that is well-registered and completely focused, and no visible imperfections on card front or back. NEAR MINT-MINT (NRMT/MT) - is qualified by at least 60/40 centering, only the slightest hint of corner wear upon close inspection, and may have a barely visible print spot, lack of intense color, or a slight focus imperfection. NEAR MINT (NRMT) - card displays at least 70/30 centering, may have a visible slight touch of corner wear all around, and/or a few slightly visible print spots, a lack of intense color, or a slight focus imperfection. EXCELLENT-MINT (EX/MINT) - centering equivalent to NRMT (70/30), but 2 or 3 corners display an obvious "fuzzy" quality. Essentially, a card that would have been deemed NRMT if not for the corner wear being more apparent. May have a barely visible print spot, a lack of intense color, or a slight focus imperfection. EXCELLENT (EX) - all four corners show visible signs of wear, but are not rounded. Centering at least 80/20. May have a visible print spot, a lack of intense color, or a slight focus imperfection. VERY GOOD (VG) - Corners are rounded and the card may have creases or wrinkles. FAIR TO GOOD - in this grade, card has rounded corners and other major defects such as scuffing, pinholes, loss of gloss, multiple creases. In general, a markedly worn card and often used as a "filler" until a better one comes along.
The Major Card Grading Companies (T6)
There is almost universal agreement that the top 5 grading card companies are: PSA is Without a doubt is the top vintage and old cards grading company. The vintage card public has accepted PSA and people pay huge premiums for vintage cards with high PSA grades. A few years ago, Beckett got into card-grading. They have been successful because they publish the hobbies top magazine and their name carries a lot of weight in the hobby. Also their BGS grading is perceived as being tougher than PSA. Unfortunately Beckett has complicated things further by actually having 3 different grading brands. BGS, BVG and BCCG. BGS is the original and considered a grade very strictly while BVG, basically designed to grade vintage cards, seems to grade a bit easier. BCCG seems to have been created for the Shopping Channel and seems to give their top grades to just about any nice recent card. These differences in grading standards are reflected in their resale prices. Off-brand grading companies There's many lesser known grading companies with more of them appearing seemingly every single day. Some are actual companies while others may be just a single individual with some fairly inexpensive equipment. A list of some of the ones we've heard of is below. It is possible that some of them do grade accurately but the market has little respect for these off-brand grading companies and their cards, if they can be sold, are usually sold at huge discounts off similarly rated cards by the top tier grading companies. This is especially true on high grade vintage cards orGEM MINT and MINT recent cards. If you want to buy graded cards by these companies, be very careful to not pay too much. DO NOT compare their price with graded cards from the top tier companies. In most cases, the going prices aren't even close. If a PSA-9 sells for $40, and a PSA-10 sells for $300, it is more likely that a 10 from an off-brand grading company sells for much closer to the $40 than to the $300. If you don't understand that the discount is this deep, and you spend $100 on this thing, you may think you got a great deal when in fact you paid double or triple or more of the cards true value. For example, we once sold a PRO-10 Shaq rookie for $30 when the PSA-10 of that Shaq rookie was valued at $300. If you see a great bargain on a vintage card then be especially careful. If a '51 Bowman Mantle is in a PRO-8 slab, you must ask yourself why is it not in a PSA slab? In PSA-8 that card would sell for more than a new Mercedes and any right minded seller would try to get the card into a PSA slab if it was possible. That they didn't do it has to be a clue that it wasn't possible. Why wouldn't it be possible? There are many reasons but the most obvious are that the card may be altered or there could be a very light crease. As far as I know, these off-brand grading services do not offer grading guarantees. If you buy an off-brand graded vintage card and it turns out to be trimmed or altered or has light creases your only recourse will likely be with seller and often their answer will be that since the card was "professionally" gradedm the card is sold as is.
"Off-Brand" grading card companies Although some of the above may be "okay", we certainly don't recommend any of them. The market certainly doesn't treat them the same as the top-tier grading companies and in many cases their graded cards sell for the same or even less than an ungraded card. There are more off-brand grading "companies" entering the market. Some don't even use slabs, they simply put the cards in a screwdown or topload with a few drops of glue or a sticker. We've even seen "grading companies" that turn out to be just an individual seller grading and selling his own cards.
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*** RUNS - ALL-TIME Leaders ***
Rank Player (age) Runs
1. Rickey Henderson 2295
2. Ty Cobb HOF 2246
3. Babe Ruth HOF 2175
4. Hank Aaron HOF 2174
5. Pete Rose 2165
6.+ BARRY BONDS (40) 2078
7. Willie Mays HOF 2062
8. Cap Anson HOF 1996
9. Stan Musial HOF 1949
10. Lou Gehrig HOF 1888
11. Tris Speaker HOF 1882
12. Mel Ott HOF 1859
13. Frank Robinson HOF 1829
14. Eddie Collins HOF 1821
15. Carl Yastrzemski HOF 1816
16. Ted Williams HOF 1798
17. Paul Molitor HOF 1782
18. Charlie Gehringer HOF 1774
19. Jimmie Foxx HOF 1751
20. Honus Wagner HOF 1736
21. Jim O'Rourke HOF 1729
22. Jesse Burkett HOF 1720
23. Willie Keeler HOF 1719
24.+ CRAIG BIGGIO (39) 1697
25. Billy Hamilton HOF 1690
26. Bid McPhee HOF 1678
27. Mickey Mantle HOF 1677
28. Dave Winfield HOF 1669
29. Rafael Palmeiro 1663
30. Joe Morgan HOF 1650
31. Cal Ripken 1647
32. Jimmy Ryan 1642
33. George Van Haltren 1639
34. Robin Yount HOF 1632
35. Eddie Murray HOF 1627
Paul Waner HOF 1627
37. Al Kaline HOF 1622
38. Roger Connor HOF 1620
39. Fred Clarke HOF 1619
40. Lou Brock HOF 1610
41. Jake Beckley HOF 1600
42. Ed Delahanty HOF 1599
43. Bill Dahlen 1589
44. George Brett HOF 1583
45. Rogers Hornsby HOF 1579
46. Tim Raines 1571
47. Hugh Duffy HOF 1552
48. Reggie Jackson HOF 1551
49. Max Carey HOF 1545
50. George Davis HOF 1539
51. Frankie Frisch HOF 1532
52. Dan Brouthers HOF 1523
53. Tom Brown 1521
54. Jeff Bagwell 1517
55. Sam Rice HOF 1514
56. Wade Boggs HOF 1513
57. Eddie Mathews HOF 1509
58. Roberto Alomar 1508
59. Al Simmons HOF 1507
60. Mike Schmidt HOF 1506
61. Nap Lajoie HOF 1504
62. Harry Stovey 1492
63. Goose Goslin HOF 1483
64. Arlie Latham 1478
65. Dwight Evans 1470
66. Herman Long 1455
67. Harry Hooper HOF 1429
68. Dummy Hoy 1426
69. Rod Carew HOF 1424
70. Sammy Sosa 1422
71. Joe Kelley HOF 1421
72. Roberto Clemente HOF 1416
73.+ GARY SHEFFIELD (36) 1411
74. Billy Williams HOF 1410
75. John Ward HOF 1408
76.+ KEN GRIFFEY JR (35) 1405
Mike Griffin 1405
78. Sam Crawford HOF 1391
79. Joe DiMaggio HOF 1390
80. Lou Whitaker 1386
81. Tony Gwynn 1383
82. Andre Dawson 1373
83.+ STEVE FINLEY (40) 1368
84. Vada Pinson 1366
85. Kenny Lofton (38) 1363
86. Brett Butler 1359
87. Doc Cramer 1357
King Kelly HOF 1357
89. Tommy Leach 1355
Larry Walker 1355
91. Fred McGriff 1349
92. Darrell Evans 1344
93. Pee Wee Reese HOF 1338
94. Luis Aparicio HOF 1335
95. Lave Cross 1333
96. Barry Larkin 1329
97. George Gore 1327
+ FRANK THOMAS (37) 1327
99. Richie Ashburn HOF 1322
100. Luke Appling HOF 1319
*** RUNS - Active Leaders ***
Rank Player (age) Runs
1. Barry Bonds (40) 2078
2. Craig Biggio (39) 1697
3. Rafael Palmeiro (40) 1663
4. Jeff Bagwell (37) 1517
5. Sammy Sosa (36) 1422
6. Gary Sheffield (36) 1411
7. Ken Griffey (35) 1405
8. Steve Finley (40) 1368
9. Kenny Lofton (38) 1363
10. Frank Thomas (37) 1327
11. Bernie Williams (36) 1301
12. Julio Franco (46) 1263
13. Alex Rodriguez (29) 1245
14. Luis Gonzalez (37) 1219
15. Omar Vizquel (38) 1195
16. Manny Ramirez (33) 1179
17. Derek Jeter (31) 1159
18. Jim Thome (34) 1151
19. Jeff Kent (37) 1139
John Olerud (36) 1139
21. Chipper Jones (33) 1101
22. Ivan Rodriguez (33) 1085
23. Ruben Sierra (39) 1081
24. Johnny Damon (31) 1073
25. Jim Edmonds (35) 1063
26. B.J. Surhoff (40) 1062
27. Juan Gonzalez (35) 1061
28. Ray Durham (33) 1050
29. Robin Ventura (37) 1006
30. Moises Alou (38) 1002
1963 FleerThe 1963 Fleer Baseball 67 card set was an attempt by the Fleer Company to break the Topps monopoly on Bubble Gum Cards. In an attempt to get around Topps exclusive agreement with MLB, the 1963 Fleer Baseball Cards were issued with cookies instead of bubble gum.The 1963 Fleer Baseball Cards were intended to be issued in multiple series, but Fleer was run out of business shortly after the first series was released when Topps sued Fleer. Due to either the deep pockets of Topps or the lack of sales - Fleer quickly gave up and never issued another baseball card. The 1963 Fleer Cards are attractive and are packed with stars !!! Along with the stars the two scare 1963 Fleer Short Prints, #46 Joe Adcock and the checklist card make this a fun set to complete. Another interesting feature of this set is card #43, the Maury Wills Rookie card. Wills, the 1962 N.L. MVP had a huge disagreement with Topps when Topps didn't thing Wills was worthy enough in 1961 to have a baseball card. Wills did not allow Topps to make his card till 1967 although he was pictured on a special 1960 World Series card featuring Luis Aparicio stealing 2nd base. Wills is pictured trying to make the tag. Other top cards in the 1963 Fleer set are: Brooks Robinson, Willie Mays, Carl Yastrzemski, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Don Drysdale and Warren Spahn. |
1964 Topps Stand-UpsTopps most popular 1960's test issue !!!Blank-backed and unnumbered, these standard size cards were called "Stand-Ups". "Stand-Ups" refers to a type of card that was die cut around the player's picture. The background section then could be folded in half, so the card could stand up by itself while the player's picture stood alone. Directions for folding are on the background and when folded only the green background remains. 1934-36 Batter Up and the 1951 Topps All-Star sets are 2 other popular standup issues. Thanks to the green and yellow borders and the likelihood that most cards have been heavily folded, 1964 Stand-Ups are extremely difficult to obtain in top grades. The 77 card set features color photographs of the player on yellow and green backgrounds. 22 of the 77 cards were single printed making them twice as scarce and much higher in demand. The set is packed with Hall-of-Famers including MICKEY MANTLE, Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Carl Yastrzemski, Al Kaline, Brooks Robinson, Don Drysdale, Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey and more !!! |
1955 Topps All-American FootballIn 1955, college football was much more popular with fans than the NFL. This 100 card 1955 Topps All-American Football card set was Topps response to collectors. Topps first major football issue this unique set features the greatest college football players from the first half of the 20th century.The 1955 Topps All-American football card set was issued in one-card penny packs, nine-card nickel packs and 22-card cello packs. The set is jam packed with rookies and stars !!! One of the most valuable 1955 Topps All-American football cards is the rookie card of former Supreme Court Justice Whizzer White.
TOP ROOKIES: The Four Horseman, Whizzer White, Fats Henry, Doc Blanchard,
Don Hutson, Amos Stagg, Tom Harmon, Ernie Nevers & MORE !!! |
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