Anyone open a lot of 1985, 1987 Leaf?

digicat

What sorts of problems are common with these sets? Checking the pop reports, it seems that getting high end key cards out of this issue is a bit tough.

% of total submitted cards recieving PSA 9 or 10
1987 Leaf: 23%
1985 Leaf: 22%

In contrast
1987 Donruss: 49%
1985 Donruss: 42%

mikeschmidt

<< <i>What sorts of problems are common with these sets? Checking the pop reports, it seems that getting high end key cards out of this issue is a bit tough.

% of total submitted cards recieving PSA 9 or 10
1987 Leaf: 23%
1985 Leaf: 22%

In contrast
1987 Donruss: 49%
1985 Donruss: 42% >>



Leaf - only available in wax
Donruss - factory set cases

With these issues in general, the corners and edges are the big problems, more than anything. And with Leaf -- there is less of it out there, and it's really only available in wax. Factory set cases produced in massive quantities [1985 and 1987 Donruss] make it easy and inexpensive to get lots of stuff and only submit the best.

Also - with 1987 Leaf in particular, 5 cards make up 95% of the submissions - and with the star cards, one is more likely to submit a borderline 8/9 than a common/lesser star card

alnavman

I have some 87 leaf opened if you are looking to complete a set..........

alnavman

After I posted my last reply I went and looked to see if I had any leaf graded and found what I've added here and a PSA 7 ST Nolan Ryan. This brought back some memories for me, these were hard to grade, lots of 7s and 8s were returned and not many 9s from what I remember. Probably why they are so low pop.....

AkbarClone

I need a #28-BJ Surhoff from '87 Leaf--any help would be apprecated.

digicat

I was asking about the Leaf stuff because I'm contemplating starting a set of it. Boxes of it go for as much or less as their Donruss equilivants, and since there are half as many cards in the set, it seems that you'd have a much better chanse of pulling the key cards. Being that 9's and 10's from the set are somewhat scarce (compared to 8s and lower), I was concerned that there was a common manufacturing issue with them that caused the quality to be low.

More than 20,800 1987 Donruss McGwires have been graded, compared to 660 1987 Leaf McGwires. Makes me wonder, even with the big McGwire craze of the late 90s, are the low Leaf submissions because of quality, or avaliablity? It sounds like avaliability is the problem.

alnavman

akbarclone - how's five for a buck sound???? I'll PM with my address.

al.