1975 Topps Killebrew PSA 9 pop increase?

mitch

Hi all, a couple of months ago i could have sworn that there were like 3-4 of these cards, and now there are 68?? Am i high or does someone else remember this?

thanks,
-mitch

Bailey

Around the National, there were somewhere between 3 and 6 of these graded PSA 9. According to the pop report, there are now 68. One was sold on eBay in the last 30 days and it sold for $228 ... which is about 1/2 of what it was a few months ago.

I'm not sure where all of the others are. Does dsl have a pile of them???

Bailey

PSA68

PSA population report printout on 1975 Topps from July 28, 2002:
#640 Harmon Killebrew
PSA 7: 39
PSA 8: 41
PSA 9: 3
PSA 10: 0
Total in all grades including qualifiers: 93
PSA population report printout on 1975 Topps from October 17, 2002:
PSA 7: 42
PSA 8: 46
PSA 9: 5
PSA 10: 0
Total: 104
Current population as of November 20, 2002:
PSA 7: 43
PSA 8: 59
PSA 9: 68
PSA 10: 0
Total: 182
That is amazing increase on this card population in 34 days! Out of 78 Killebrew cards sent to PSA between Oct. 17 and Nov. 20, 63 cards got awarded PSA 9 and 12 cards got PSA 8. There is no other 1975 Topps card with that large increase of population since summer, let alone 63 net increase in PSA 9 on single card! I wonder if this is simple data entry error where PSA 9 total is supposed to be changed from 6 to 8, but instead leaving both numbers making it total of 68 in PSA 9 and total in all grades increased to 182 as result of this error?

crazysc

<< <i> I wonder if this is simple data entry error where PSA 9 total is supposed to be changed from 6 to 8, but instead leaving both numbers making it total of 68 in PSA 9 and total in all grades increased to 182 as result of this error? >>



I doubt the system is updated in that fashino - not a computer expert by any means, but I'd figure the pop is updated based on cards being added to PSA's database - it would be illogical to have a seperate database that wasn't linked to actual serial #s...

Late1970sTopps

That's not the only card to increase in population dramatically. The #2 Lou Brock Highlight card jumped from a population of one in PSA 9 to a population of nine. Furthermore, #580 Frank Robinson which had a population of three jumped to 20! Frank

PSA68

Here is a list of 1975 Topps cards with current highest population in PSA 9 along with total of cards submitted based on November 20 population report as compared to July 28 this year:
#223 Robin Yount 69/1,964 67/1,912
#640 Harmon Killebrew 68/182 3/93 (65+ Net Increase!)
#230 Catfish Hunter 44/125 36/108
#320 Pete Rose 42/505 38/451
#279 Milt May 42/67 37/58
#232 Diego Segui 34/71 28/59
#278 Paul Lindblad 31/58 26/48
#560 Tony Perez 29/153 27/135
#370 Tom Seaver 28/363 24/335
#299 Bucky Dent 26/68 19/58
#260 Johnny Bench 26/322 25/305
#280 Carl Yastrzemski 24/276 22/257
#573 Orlando Pena 24/42 24/40
#327 Jerry Hairston 23/52 16/42
#312 Strikeout Leaders 22/325 22/310
#545 Billy Williams 22/60 3/33 (19+ Net Increase)
#155 Billy Bibby 21/58 15/48
#620 Gary Carter 21/450 19/414
#80 Carlton Fisk 20/253 19/240
#121 Bill North 20/67 13/53
#122 Al Hrabosky 20/48 17/40
#228 George Brett 20/2,429 19/2,336 (Scarcest with one in every 121 submitted)
#231 Mike Tyson 20/44 12/31
#580 Frank Robinson 20/110 3/84 (+17 Net Increase)
Aside from Billy Williams and Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew PSA 9 population increase is nothing short of astounding!

mcastaldi

PSA68> Your info on Brett is incorrect - your numbers are from the "9Q" column. As of right now, there are 74 Brett PSA9s with no qualifiers out of 2428 total submissions. That works out to about 3%.

Even if if there were only 20 Brett 9s, it wouldn't be as tough as a PSA9 Nolan Ryan.
Twenty Bretts - 20 of 2428 = 0.8%
Three Ryans - 3 of 822 = 0.3%

Statistically and subjectively, the Ryan is the toughest of the HOFers to find in 9 in this set. It's an easy card to find in 8, but there's always just enough wrong with it to keep it from a 9. Where the eye appeal on some 75s just goes "POW", the Ryan almost always looks dull and lifeless.

As for the influx of Killebrew PSA9s. . .even if a dealer did have 65 PSA9-quality Killebrews, I have a hard time imagining he'd submit them all at once and totally blow apart the pop for that card. But I guess anything is possible. Here's to finding one at the Sun-Times show this weekend. Given the explosion in pop, they should be pretty inexpensive now

Mike

PSA68

mcastaldi: I appreciate your corrections and comments. Yes, I looked at wrong column on George Brett PSA 9 totals as you said. I agree with you that Nolan Ryan is toughest 1975 Topps HOF card in PSA 9 grade. For some reason I missed that one. Obviously it was not good idea to do population report analysis at 4 am!

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