Name a card from the 80s that will never get a 10
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Has to be a widely available card, no obscure minor league cards or anything.
My vote is the 1986 Topps Frank DiPino #26. Only 1 7 and 2 8s graded. This is consistently the worst card I've pulled out of a pack. Way o/c front and back and horrible print marks. I don't even think I could have gotten a 7 on any of them.
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Any 1981 Fleer Here's Bo card that has a crease
1988 Donruss 283 Devon White
1981 Valenzuela regular issue
T222's PSA 1 or better
1988 Topps traded 87t Jeff Pico
1982 topps Shooty Babbitt, the best card, the best name of all-time. His only regular issue card.
According to PSA, 1985 Topps Tony Fernandez #48.
Apparently it's location on the uncut sheet prevents it from being centered. I think there are only 3 PSA 9's and at the time of the article the highest was an 8. I just sent one to PSA that could very well get a 10. I'll see what happens!
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A PSA 9 just sold for $5.00, a pop 2.
Just an aside to a previous post...I have an 82 Topps Shooty Babitt that is graded PSA 10. I believe the pop is 18. He also has a card in the 1982 Donruss issue. I do not own a graded version of that one.
The PSA 10 Babitt, among all of the graded cards that I own, is one of my favorites, for the simple fact that I chuckle every time I look at it because of the inside joke my childhood friend and I share over that card. We can go weeks or months, and sadly, sometimes years, without seeing each other, but mention "Shooty Babitt" to each other, and it's 1982 again... and we are young again...
1981 Topps #18 Glenn Adams
1987 Fleer Bip Roberts
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I think all of these cards mentioned will someday achieve a 10 due to the amount of unopened still out there to be ripped especially the mid to late 80's stuff. This isn't to try and put down 80's product as that's my primary focus. The 81 Fernando? That may be a bit harder, but I still think it will happen. When it does, it's a 5-10 K card in my opinion. An 88 Donruss Devon White or 87-88 Topps/Topps Traded of anything I think could happen at anytime. How many people actively submit this stuff? I'm not currently working on these sets, but when I do, I plan to submit a ton. I just don't think lots of people submit late 80's commons, but could be wrong. Hell, I've never collected 88 Donruss, but even I have a case of it in my closet and have no idea how it got there....it's still everywhere, just a matter of time IMO.
I do agree that there is a massive amount of unopened material still out there for pretty much anything from the 80s, and probably just as much that has been opened, but forgotten and ignored. So, playing the percentages and probabilities, I guess you could say that at some point, SURELY a 10 will eventually be discovered... But for a lot of the cards from the 81 Topps set, I'm just not so sure.
A bit of an aside... does anyone remember when the Delmon Young Collection was being assembled, didn't he make it his personal mission to find an 81 Valenzuela 302 PSA 10? I recall reading where he ripped cases upon cases of various unopened product, and maybe factory sets, too? He also had his agents scouring shows, internet, etc., looking for possible raw candidates, I believe. I don't know how much of that is really true, or just embellished for whatever article that I read way back when. But you'd have to think that someone putting that much effort (and funds) into his collection, and having his own line of titled PSA flips, that if there was ever going to be a Valenzuela in a 10, it would have been Delmon that had gotten it graded.
Sorry, I meant Dmitri Young Collection.
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You beat me to it, though I'm not really sure what has kept this card from 10-ing to date. Anyone?
If you're unfamiliar, Google "The Dmitri Young Collection" and you'll find a series of articles about his pursuit of all of the Hall of Fame rookie cards in the highest possible grade. He even got PSA to reholder the cards with the designation added to the flip as being part of "The Dmitri Young Collection". Having fulfilled that quest, he then turned his attention to other iconic cards (and some not so much), but the Valenzuela rookie was one of the ones he put max effort into locating a 10. If he wasn't able to come up with an example that would grade a 10, I'm not sure one exists.
You name it. Chipping, centering, blurry printing, print spots, surface bumps. Most of them have multiple issues.
Even back in '81 opening packs all of mine had print bumps.
The backs of the Fernando cards are usually 95/5 centering
There are 26 out of 108 without a PSA 10 from the Wrestling All Stars Series.
I don't think the Ray Stevens will ever grade a 9.
Of the 26 remaining a few more will hit but many won't.