Ah, I love those O-Pee-Chee Baseball cards!
KalineFan
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I sent in three different invoices this week!
All of them were OPC Baseball 1965-1987
Some other stuff in between. They went in
on the $5 special.
Results will be forthcoming so you can see
what is happening in the world of those
NORTH OF THE BORDER cards!
GOOD NIGHT ALL!
Tony
aka KalineFan
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I agree with you on the OPCs. I have a few in myself I am eager to get back. I miss the OPC buying posts of rbdjr1.
Collecting Tony Perez PSA and Rookie Baseball PSA
Got any 1978's in there? I've started dabbling in that set.
One of one, no nines, and only one 8. to bad it couldn't have been a rose or something
<< <i>The I like the early OPC's too (60's-70's) and also liked to see rbdjr1's posts...whatever happened to him? Dont see him here anymore >>
the way he jumped ship and stopped upgrading his 76 set leads me to believe the feds are after him
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<< <i>The I like the early OPC's too (60's-70's) and also liked to see rbdjr1's posts...whatever happened to him? Dont see him here anymore >>
the way he jumped ship and stopped upgrading his 76 set leads me to believe the feds are after him
he also sold a larg enumber of his OPC baseball cards from the 1970s - and many of them were not sold for a gain
There are 13 naturally short-sized cards from the '68 set, Stargell, Yaz Leader #2, and Billy Williams among them. This is one reason the POPs are zero for these cards. The Stargell has been misgraded twice, I've seen one and it's definitely short sized. I know of at least 14 Stargells that have been submitted (six by me), all came back "Evidence of Trimming."
Of the three '65 OPC Brooks Robinson's I've seen, none had the Printed in Canada" line. Can someone please check their '65 Topps Brooks and let me know what's on the reverse?
Why did you decide sell your OPC sets? Are you still an OPC fan?
I began a new collecting venture: a type card (player can only be represented once) for every year 1900-2006, with a few pre-Century examples. Half my energy and funds are spent on vintage Hot Wheels. IMO, 1965 and 1974 are the toughest OPC years and I spent too much time building that 1968 set. I still believe there's much upside in pre-1977 OPCs.
To any OPC folks out there, if anyone has any Thurman Munson OPC from 71-77 graded or high end raw LMK. Thanks !
-- Yogi Berra
Thanks for all the replies!
It is extremely tough to find some of the common 1969 OPC
Of particular scarcity in my humble opinion, one the of the toughest
to find with ANY decent centering is #217 John Donaldson. I have
yet to see one centered (NM or better, that is) that is better than
20/80 top to bottom. Of course, the two toughest cards to find
without the printing crinkle down the middle is Brock and Banks.
There is a GEM MINT 10 of the Banks out there that was on ebay
a while back. A few months ago I purchased a Luis Aparicio in MINT
9 and usually about 50-60% of those have the printers crinkle right
down the middle of them! I have a #50 Clemente that is MINT 9 oc,
but boy is it a beauty, even for an off-center card! I have went thru
about 10-15 sets of these cards to find just the right card, not including
the various singles I have purchased.
On FEEBAY, it is usually one extreme or the other, as you roll the dice
on "RAW" cards that grade NM or NM/MT. I find that about 80% of the
cards that I bid on, never look like they are supposed to when I get
em. They are so hard to find nice that you simply take a shot on em
at $1 to 4 or $5 a whack, which can get expensive, but you always
try to when the cards look so nice.
Probably the best OPC card I have purchased off FEEBAY in the last
year was a raw 1965 OPC Roger Maris for $61. It came back PSA 8 !
(Let the drooling begin! LOL!).
Maybe I have started an OPC thread? In any case, maybe it is time
we did anyway? Any other thoughts on OPC especially the 1965-1969
stuff, let it FLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
regards,
Tony
aka KalineFan
<< <i>IMO the '65 Murakami (first Japanese player on a Topps card?), '66 Mays, '69 Yaz, and '71 Clemente and '73 #1 are the toughest OPCs to find in high grade.
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sweet.. i found a Murakami just a few days ago while digging through a box of stuff ive had for awhile.. it was a pleasant surprise, especially when i noticed the "Printed in Canada".. it will grade no lower than a 5, no higher than a 6..
Are you gonna submit it to PSA?
mike
<< <i>IMO the '65 Murakami (first Japanese player on a Topps card?), '66 Mays, '69 Yaz, '71 Clemente and '73 #1 are the toughest OPCs to find in high grade... >>
p_A, your card sure seems to stack up to 67standups -- on the front anyway. Your back is a little hairy (sorry to get personal), but I'd be curious how PSA grades it. Let us know if and when you do get it slabbed!