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When did condition start to matter with cards?

MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
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I've been thinking about this as I sort through my 1989 Hockey cards. When did the days go where all it mattered was that you got your favorite(s) player(s) and put cards in bicycles? When did we begin looking for centering, condition, et cetera?

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    EstilEstil Posts: 6,923 ✭✭✭✭
    My middle or high school library once had a book from 1979 titled "Sports Cards" that did in fact stress the importance of keeping cards in nice condition.
    WISHLIST
    Dimes: 54S, 53P, 50P, 49S, 45D+S, 44S, 43D, 41S, 40D+S, 39D+S, 38D+S, 37D+S, 36S, 35D+S, all 16-34's
    Quarters: 52S, 47S, 46S, 40S, 39S, 38S, 37D+S, 36D+S, 35D, 34D, 32D+S
    74 Topps: 37,38,46,47,48,138,151,193,210,214,223,241,256,264,268,277,289,316,435,552,570,577,592,602,610,654,655
    1997 Finest silver: 115, 135, 139, 145, 310
    1995 Ultra Gold Medallion Sets: Golden Prospects, HR Kings, On-Base Leaders, Power Plus, RBI Kings, Rising Stars
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    StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    I remember it as being the early 80s. First with the Fleer error cards and then with the rookie cards craze starting with Mattingly.
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    LampyLampy Posts: 329 ✭
    i remember when collectors were chasing the inserts and not the RC's.
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    RookieWaxRookieWax Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭
    It always mattered with vintage cards to some extent, but the first "condition sensitive" card that I remember collectors chasing a nice, centered copy was the 1984 Donruss Joe Carter...sometime in the late 1980s.
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