1989 Topps Bonilla -- is this a "condition-rare" card?

CubsKiller99

This post is just to get some intelligent discussion of the condition rarity topic.

Of the one to two million 1989 Bobby Bonilla cards produced, only 51 have been graded by PSA.
Forty-seven PSA 8 and no PSA 9 or 10 yet. Fifty-one out of a million is a small sample.

And there are still a lot of ungraded 1989 Topps cards out there. Many cases and boxes
still unopened. So why isn't there even one nine yet? When you see a population report you
don't get a sense of when the majority of the grading occurred. Are the grades very old,
which I suspect is the case of Bonilla since he fell off the HOF-track years ago, or
did people just stop getting his card graded at that point? Or are the 51 graded
mostly more recent people trying to get the so-called "condition rarity" of PSA 9 or 10?
And if it's the latter -- then why aren't more people shooting for it now since they can sell
it on eBAY as a Pop 1 card for a nice sum. Much more than the $6 it took to have it graded.

So is this card a "condition rarity"?

How many cards have to be graded to really say that a card fits that bill?

3BoyzTrading

Wow, I can't believe 51 have been graded and no 9's, rather surprising. Maybe someone stashed away a 50 count lot and sent them all in to be graded.

KennytheRat

It is probably Bobby Bonilla...he is still being paid by the Mets and can afford it afterall.

Cheers!