What is the hardest post war card to find centered?

frankhardy · March 31, 2011 7:15AM

Someone in the "checklist" thread mentioned this briefly and wanted to get every ones take. What post war card is the hardest to find centered. A couple come to mind without even thinking about it - 1979 Topps Ozzie Smith and 1986-87 Fleer Dominique Wilkens.

What else.

Davemri · March 31, 2011 7:17AM

1963 Fleer Lance Alworth

mikeschmidt · March 31, 2011 7:23AM

Isn't there a 1988 Minor League Ken Griffey Jr. card that is 99% of the time found off-centered?

ldferg · March 31, 2011 7:28AM

76 brett, 78 ryan

OckhamsRazor · March 31, 2011 7:33AM

69 Brock

FloodMap20 · March 31, 2011 7:33AM

1995 Bowman's Best refractors

handyman · March 31, 2011 7:38AM

1961 Topps Willie Mays #150

VitoCo1972 · March 31, 2011 7:47AM

I think I said that about the 1969 Basketball checklist. I agree with 76 Brett but another underrated one is a 73 Yastrzemski.

drewsef · March 31, 2011 8:13AM

1960 fleer jim woodard beats all of those imo

MDCards · March 31, 2011 8:20AM

'71 Munson is pretty tough too

Ironmanfan · March 31, 2011 8:31AM

'78 Eddie Murray rookie

IMF

SDSportsFan · March 31, 2011 8:37AM

If you're talking all sports, I'd say the 1958 Topps Bobby Hull rookie card is the toughest to find centered.

I'd put the 1963 Fleer Lance Alworth rookie at #2.

Steve

SidePocket · March 31, 2011 8:44AM

1959 Bob Gibson or 1961 Maris

cwazzy · March 31, 2011 8:46AM

Probably not as tough as some of these but the '61 Topps Roy Campanella has been a royal PITA to find centered.

mknez · March 31, 2011 8:47AM

1970 Topps Basketball #6, Assist Leaders - Very difficult to find centered.

Albertdidit · March 31, 2011 9:00AM

Of course the 84 Donruss Joe Carter

nearmint · March 31, 2011 9:05AM

<< <i>1960 fleer jim woodard beats all of those imo >>

I'll second that.

diamondman · March 31, 2011 9:06AM

the best one I have found in 20 years, bought it raw and submitted it. was surprised it came back a 7, figured it a 6 because of the centering .

RipublicaninMass · March 31, 2011 9:07AM

1959 Billy Pierce All Star

diamondman · March 31, 2011 9:09AM

don't forget the 1972 Topps # 582 Expos team card. made off center intentionally by Topps to pizz off the Canadians. lol

I don't know about everyone else but I have found when looking for a tough card to find centered. I always find one perfectly centered
but beat to death or taped to the wall or inside an album, or if it is a checklist it is always marked on usually just 1 side and only 2 or 3 little boxes but none the less marked on.

Probstein123 · March 31, 2011 9:10AM

1976 topps johnny briggs

SDSportsFan · March 31, 2011 9:23AM

<< <i>

<< <i>1960 fleer jim woodard beats all of those imo >>

I'll second that.

>>

The Paul Lowe 1960 Fleer card is also near-impossible to find centered.

Steve

MattyC · March 31, 2011 9:25AM

61 Topps Jim Gentile.
76 Brett is very tough.
75 Minis in general, especially Tommy Davis; no PSA 9s or 10s.

Albertdidit · March 31, 2011 9:36AM

One thing to mention to even make matters worse for the 76 Brett that some mentioned is the print marks that are on alot of them also

bbuckner22 · March 31, 2011 9:54AM

69 Brock +1, also 72 Blue In Action and 73 Del Unser

PaulMaul · March 31, 2011 10:22AM

1971 Claude Raymond, Al Weis, many other tough high numbers
1972 Aaron in action, Foli in action, a bunch of the in action cards are tough

bobbyw8469 · March 31, 2011 10:25AM

A Namath rookie is hard to find centered without some sort of tilt to it. A Bob Gibson rookie is always nice to find centered, as it usually is not. Those two come to mind for me.

thehallmark · March 31, 2011 10:30AM

1954 Wilson Franks -- all of them

judgebuck · March 31, 2011 10:39AM

Seems to me that there are many 1961 Topps baseball that are hard to find centered.

Nathaniel1960 · March 31, 2011 10:52AM

Just picked this up raw for $10. Will probably sub with hopes of 7.

gemint · March 31, 2011 10:58AM

Aside from those already listed, 1972 Paul Schaal IA. '69 Kekich and Satriano are also tough. Also, try finding a 1973T #1 HR leaders card 55-45 centered front and back. I think it's impossible.

Probstein123 · March 31, 2011 11:59AM

1962 topps george witt
1960 topps curt simmons
1964 topps orioles team
1969 topps tom satriano
1957 topps max surkont
1955 topps jim hegan

FloodMap20 · March 31, 2011 12:39PM

The '54 Banks rookie and '55 Clemente rookies have weird centering to begin with - the logos and borders don't line up with the cropping on the rest of the card.

MULLINS5 · March 31, 2011 12:40PM

1979 Topps/OPC Mike Bossy # 161

Stone193 · March 31, 2011 12:41PM

Hi Shane

I can't pick a specific card - but I've been collecting 63F BB since Dec 03 - and I can't believe how hard it is to find every card well centered - and I'm talking about 66 cards!