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Half-Grade Rookie Run. PSA 1.5 - PSA 8.5

JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I was trying to think of some creative ways to organize some of my cards and came up with the .5 grade rookie run. I was surprised at how many key rookies I have in .5 grades. I would love see how far others have gotten on .5 grade rookie run so post what you. have.

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  • redlegsredlegs Posts: 936 ✭✭✭✭✭

    David, those are some super nice cards. The Mays and Aaron look incredibly nice for the grade.

  • NGS428NGS428 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice cards and great idea! The half grades don’t get enough love, that is for sure!

    Nic

    Guides Authored - Graded Card Scanning Guide PDF | History of the PSA Label PDF

  • DBesse27DBesse27 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some serious eye candy here!

    Yaz Master Set
    #1 Gino Cappelletti master set
    #1 John Hannah master set

    Also collecting Andre Tippett, Patriots Greats' RCs, Dwight Evans, 1964 Venezuelan Topps, 1974 Topps Red Sox

  • JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @redlegs said:
    David, those are some super nice cards. The Mays and Aaron look incredibly nice for the grade.

    >
    reflags thanks. Those are two of my favorite cards.

  • JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @orioles93 said:
    I don't have to many half grades but this is one of my favorite cards in my collection.

    Very nice Clemente for the grade.

  • UFFDAHUFFDAH Posts: 1,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBrules - great run!! Woot Woot!!

  • orioles93orioles93 Posts: 3,474 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBrules said:

    @orioles93 said:
    I don't have to many half grades but this is one of my favorite cards in my collection.

    Very nice Clemente for the grade.

    Thanks! When I purchased it ungraded, it was in a screw down, probably for 20+ years. I suspect the screw down caused the spider wrinkling on the surface of the card.

    What I Collect:

    PSA HOF Baseball Postwar Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 80.51% Complete)


    PSA Pro Football HOF Rookie Players Set Registry- (Currently 19.80% Complete)


    PSA Basketball HOF Players Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 6.02% Complete)
  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBrules if I have one critique it's that you should try to focus more on centering.

  • KendallCatKendallCat Posts: 2,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dave - just wow! Those are some amazing examples.

    KC

  • ScoobyDoo2ScoobyDoo2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jbrules...... thanks for sharing your gems.

  • ScoobyDoo2ScoobyDoo2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @azvike....... Otto here, really looks like Ronald Reagan to me ... I always think of the Gipper when I see this issue. Nice card!

  • JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @graygator said:
    Here’s a half-grade rookie run.


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    @graygator: Very nice run. Thanks for posting. That Jackie is incredible looking for a 2.5. What makes it so low?

  • graygatorgraygator Posts: 453 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 7, 2022 5:39AM

    @JBrules said:

    @graygator said:
    Here’s a half-grade rookie run.


    ![](https://us.v-

    @graygator: Very nice run. Thanks for posting. That Jackie is incredible looking for a 2.5. What makes it so low?

    Supposedly it’s because there’s a little glue residue on the back.

  • BPorter26BPorter26 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Graygator : The Jackie Robinson 1948 Bowman 2.5 is an absolutely beautiful card. Does it have paper loss on the back of the card? I don't have a ton of baseball anymore, but mine are from the 80's. The front end and back end of the greatest decade.


    "EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY IT SAYS IT RIGHT THERE ON THE WALL" - JACKIE MOON
  • graygatorgraygator Posts: 453 ✭✭✭✭

    @BPorter26 said:
    Graygator : The Jackie Robinson 1948 Bowman 2.5 is an absolutely beautiful card. Does it have paper loss on the back of the card? I don't have a ton of baseball anymore, but mine are from the 80's. The front end and back end of the greatest decade.

    No paper loss, and you should know, you sold it to me!

  • BPorter26BPorter26 Posts: 3,499 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @graygator said:
    No paper loss, and you should know, you sold it to me!

    LOL :D I said to myself was that my card at one time? I do remember selling it to you. I think it has slight paper loss /glue If I remember from what I PSA told me. I know I tried to get a bump at the National one of those years. I'm glad you still have own the card. If you ever want to sell it back, LMK :)

    "EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY IT SAYS IT RIGHT THERE ON THE WALL" - JACKIE MOON
  • KendallCatKendallCat Posts: 2,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dave - just wow! Those are some amazing examples.

    KC

  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,583 ✭✭✭✭

    @redlegs said:
    Here is my Lefty Grove Exhibit rookie in a 5.5.

    Amazing how much that card has shot up in value over the last few years. A lot of the Exhibits rookies are following suit after the Gehrig Exhibit RCs entered the stratosphere.

    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • daltexdaltex Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @NGS428 said:
    Single run here. Still looking for a 1.5 and 2.5…. Only 3 in total have those grades. The 3.5 is a pop 9 out of 85k graded.

    This is (a part of) one of my favorite sets on the boards!

  • JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @NGS428 said:
    Single run here. Still looking for a 1.5 and 2.5…. Only 3 in total have those grades. The 3.5 is a pop 9 out of 85k graded.

    I was hoping you were going to post. A great run of Jr. Good luck with the 1.5 and 2.5.

  • NGS428NGS428 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @daltex said:

    @NGS428 said:
    Single run here. Still looking for a 1.5 and 2.5…. Only 3 in total have those grades. The 3.5 is a pop 9 out of 85k graded.

    This is (a part of) one of my favorite sets on the boards!

    Thanks! It is the only half grade run I know of. There are a few who did the whole grades only.

    Nic

    Guides Authored - Graded Card Scanning Guide PDF | History of the PSA Label PDF

  • JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @KendallCat said:
    I love half point grades especially 8.5’s. My favorite in my collection with a .5 grade.

    Keith,
    That is an outstanding example. Looks so much better than the grade.

  • 19591959 Posts: 626 ✭✭✭

    What? No 9.5 Griffeys ? DId you buy them or send them to PSA? If so, how many did you have to send to get all the half grades.?

  • NGS428NGS428 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1959 said:
    What? No 9.5 Griffeys ? DId you buy them or send them to PSA? If so, how many did you have to send to get all the half grades.?

    Yeah, still looking for the 9.5 and and the PSA 10 black label. :smiley:

    I bought this run one by one.. Trying to hit a mid grade half is like a needle in a haystack.

    Nic

    Guides Authored - Graded Card Scanning Guide PDF | History of the PSA Label PDF

  • KendallCatKendallCat Posts: 2,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dave - just wow! Those are soke> @JBrules said:

    @KendallCat said:
    I love half point grades especially 8.5’s. My favorite in my collection with a .5 grade.

    Keith,
    That is an outstanding example. Looks so much better than the grade.

    Thank you JB. I still can’t find what is wrong with it with a loupe. It looks like an 8 to me. Speaking of 8’s I need to pick up a Ryan rookie in an 8 this spring/summer.

  • NGS428NGS428 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 8, 2022 7:13PM

    @JBrules said:

    @NGS428 said:
    Single run here. Still looking for a 1.5 and 2.5…. Only 3 in total have those grades. The 3.5 is a pop 9 out of 85k graded.

    I was hoping you were going to post. A great run of Jr. Good luck with the 1.5 and 2.5.

    You bet, took a bit to get to it, it couldn’t pass it up. Thanks, hope I come across one! With all the grading happening that pop isn’t budging…

    Edit: I have been thinking of trying this for some of his other rookies, Should be cheaper, but probably harder to complete.

    Nic

    Guides Authored - Graded Card Scanning Guide PDF | History of the PSA Label PDF

  • DMasciDMasci Posts: 170 ✭✭✭

    Some beautiful cards here, love the Payton RC. My only complaint with half grade cards is with PSA, if you are going to give out half grades then add them to your price guide.

    NFL HOF Set
    https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/398345

  • JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jeffcbay said:

    Great looking Brady.

  • Mikeygiggs_336699Mikeygiggs_336699 Posts: 154 ✭✭✭✭

    @maddux69 said:
    Adding a little sweetness to the mix, nice cards everyone!

    Love this Card! Picked up this card in the same grade in summer 2020 before football vintage skyrocketed like everything else and am happy i did because it sells for much more than i paid for it.

  • JBrulesJBrules Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @brad31 said:
    Loved seeing all the half pointers!

    While not a nice run of the half point grades like the OP, here are my half-grade rookies.

    Very nice run of half-pointers. Some great looking cards that look as good as many 9's. Thanks for posting.

  • PiggsPiggs Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭✭

    Just got this back from PSA

  • hyperchipper09hyperchipper09 Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Got a handful around here









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