Grade my balls please
CrazyMind2017
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Just joined the message board today... I hope this is the proper forum to ask this kind of question and that it's appropriate.
I know grading is subjecting and unpredictable, but I'm looking for opinions on what kind of grades you think I'd get (just your best guess) if I submitted the following items to PSA/DNA for grading:
Item #1: Mike Schmidt GG ball I obtained 11/14/10 at the MAB show in Secaucus. This looks perfect to me.
Item #2: Ryne Sandberg GG ball I obtained 11/20/10 at the Steiner signing in Roosevelt Field Mall, Garden City. He used a light/medium color blue pen, so it's not as dark as the Schmidt ball, and there's also a light spot where he didn't press as hard in the first letter of his name (all the way to the very left).
Item #3: Schmidt 8x10, also obtained 11/14/10 at the same time as the GG ball.
Item #4: Pete Rose ONL Coleman ball I obtained at a Steiner signing in 2004 at Last Licks in Armonk. I begged him to sign WWF HOF and his agent/adviser said he won't put HOF on anything, but Pete was gracious and finally relented. I have a Steiner COA (the old paper style) that says "Inscription Baseball." This looks perfect to me except there's some dirt between the stitching under the signature, and some of the stitches above the signature are a little tight, making the holes a little chippy and large, especially the three stitches directly above the "ose" in his name.
Item #5: Lou Piniella OAL Budig ball I obtained at a MAB show in Secaucus in 2007. This looks fabulous to my untrained eye.
Item #6: This one I already submitted. This is a full untorn ticket from David Cone's Perfect Game. It was announced in February that July 18 would be Yogi Berra Day, and then Steiner announced a Berra/Rizzuto signing at Roosevelt Field on May 22. So I figured it would be cool to have an untorn, signed ticket from Yogi Berra Day in section 8 and printed on Yogi's birthday (May 12). So Yogi was the first to sign this. Then two months later, Cone pitched a Perfect Game, throwing 88 pitches on what would have been my grandfather's 88th birthday. It was quite a surreal experience. Anyway, I sent this in for authentication and requested a minimum grade of 8.... I specifically said if anything less than 8, then please authenticate only. It would only be appropriate for it to come back with a grade of exactly 8, considering the theme of everything that happened that miraculous day. The back is perfect, better than the front. And I wouldn't have risked sending it 3000 miles across the country if I didn't have another one just like it.
Actually the other one is a little nicer, since Girardi's signature on that one is completely in the open area above Yogi.
Thanks in advance for any input.
I know grading is subjecting and unpredictable, but I'm looking for opinions on what kind of grades you think I'd get (just your best guess) if I submitted the following items to PSA/DNA for grading:
Item #1: Mike Schmidt GG ball I obtained 11/14/10 at the MAB show in Secaucus. This looks perfect to me.
Item #2: Ryne Sandberg GG ball I obtained 11/20/10 at the Steiner signing in Roosevelt Field Mall, Garden City. He used a light/medium color blue pen, so it's not as dark as the Schmidt ball, and there's also a light spot where he didn't press as hard in the first letter of his name (all the way to the very left).
Item #3: Schmidt 8x10, also obtained 11/14/10 at the same time as the GG ball.
Item #4: Pete Rose ONL Coleman ball I obtained at a Steiner signing in 2004 at Last Licks in Armonk. I begged him to sign WWF HOF and his agent/adviser said he won't put HOF on anything, but Pete was gracious and finally relented. I have a Steiner COA (the old paper style) that says "Inscription Baseball." This looks perfect to me except there's some dirt between the stitching under the signature, and some of the stitches above the signature are a little tight, making the holes a little chippy and large, especially the three stitches directly above the "ose" in his name.
Item #5: Lou Piniella OAL Budig ball I obtained at a MAB show in Secaucus in 2007. This looks fabulous to my untrained eye.
Item #6: This one I already submitted. This is a full untorn ticket from David Cone's Perfect Game. It was announced in February that July 18 would be Yogi Berra Day, and then Steiner announced a Berra/Rizzuto signing at Roosevelt Field on May 22. So I figured it would be cool to have an untorn, signed ticket from Yogi Berra Day in section 8 and printed on Yogi's birthday (May 12). So Yogi was the first to sign this. Then two months later, Cone pitched a Perfect Game, throwing 88 pitches on what would have been my grandfather's 88th birthday. It was quite a surreal experience. Anyway, I sent this in for authentication and requested a minimum grade of 8.... I specifically said if anything less than 8, then please authenticate only. It would only be appropriate for it to come back with a grade of exactly 8, considering the theme of everything that happened that miraculous day. The back is perfect, better than the front. And I wouldn't have risked sending it 3000 miles across the country if I didn't have another one just like it.
Actually the other one is a little nicer, since Girardi's signature on that one is completely in the open area above Yogi.Thanks in advance for any input.
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What grades do you think the Sandberg and Rose balls would get? Does the Rose HOF inscription command a high premium? I'd think it's extremely rare... probably not 1/1, but still very hard to find. I tried to get a Giamatti NL ball for this, but I couldn't find any in time for the signing, so I used a Coleman ball. Still, any NL ball is better than the hideous MLB ball with the giant silhouette emblem stamp.
And does anyone with experience getting tickets graded have any idea if 8 is realistic on the ticket? I was at a show last weekend where a dealer had an untorn 1999 World Series Game 4 ticket that was graded 8 and it looked perfect to me. I asked him what they found wrong with it, and he said he has no idea. He also said he has another one at home that was given a 10 and it looks exactly the same. It seems the grade assigned sometimes has more to do with how the grader is feeling on a particular day than the merits of the item itself.
Finally, I apologize if this is not the right place to mention this, but I have a load of crap I'm selling on ebay right now. My seller ID is 23.Jordan if anyone wants to take a look.... autographs of Sandberg, Boggs, O'Neill, Guidry/Nettles, Torre/Zimmer/Chambliss, Catfish Hunter, Rizzuto, Gooden, Carlton.... probably a few others as well, I don't remember them all off the top of my head.
<< <i>Those are some nice clean balls. I like how you have a good blend of older and younger balls. >>
That just sounds soooooo wrong.
<< <i>I prefer dirty game used balls myself, but you do have a nice set of balls there. >>
As long as they're not covered in pine tar!