1972 Topps Baseball - Official PSA Thread!

I had some great luck at the White Plains show yesterday. A dealer there who mostly deals in 50s & 60s star cards had bought a 1972 set. He had no interest in grading any of the commons and I spent 1.5 hours going through the whole set pretty thoroughly. I cherry picked 25 cards I need for my set, all of which have near perfect corners. He gave them to me incredibly cheaply, basically just the raw Beckett high price. After going through them more carefully at home, I have 19 cards I am confident will be PSA 9s with many having a shot at a 10. Now if only I had an affordable way to submit them! No super tough cards unfortunately. There was a Ken Brett among them but the vertical centering was just out of the PSA 9 range. Incredibly fun!

Those are some nice raw pick ups from the White Plains show, pretty rare to find 9 type raw still out there.

As far as the Expos team card goes, a bidder like this takes a lot of the fun in trying to put this set together out of it. This is at least the third recent card I know of I’ve needed for my set, looks like it’s next to impossible to outbid this guy. The market has been set for this card with all of the past sales, can it go up if one of them hasn’t come to the auction block in while? Yes, but it’s currently approaching 4 x VCP. And again, stacked bids for everyone else to play with

The Expos team card only went for $1350, think the bidder had 5 (yes, 5) other stacked bids that had not been breached. Now if 4SC would happen to get a 9 on one they’ll list south of a grand

Not the prettiest 9 either. But if it says 9 on the label ...

@PaulMaul said:

@mrpeanut39 said:
Not the prettiest 9 either. But if it says 9 on the label ...

But just about as pretty as this card ever gets, I think....

I concur, that’s about as good as that card is gonna get. 8 stacked bids? I think that guy is screwing with us now. Again, I’m sure Matt (seller) is pleased at the results. He probably would have been happy if it went for a grand less

@81 Topps Guy said:
a bidder like this takes a lot of the fun in trying to put this set together out of it. This is at least the third recent card I know of I’ve needed for my set, looks like it’s next to impossible to outbid this guy. The market has been set for this card with all of the past sales, can it go up if one of them hasn’t come to the auction block in while? Yes, but it’s currently approaching 4 x VCP. And again, stacked bids for everyone else to play with

This is why I sold the set when I did. I can't fathom paying prices like these for the low pop cards - cards I don't even have any sentimental value for - and even though all of the recent VCP sales are lower, I imagine that there could be aftershocks for awhile, with someone listing an Expos Team for $799, and then one selling at auction for $600, etc.

why stack bids ?

Just wanted to stop in, introduce myself, and focus my attentions to my '72 set. Having just reached 100% on another of my 1970's sets, 1972 is the next mountain to climb. My set is now at #40 on the registry (Bill's 401(k) Plan) as I've been picking up cards here and there for several years. Any advise, info, hot leads, etc would be a welcomed start. Hope to get to know many of you and maybe even make some deals with a few.
I love to trade and have several '72s as well as many other 1970-1979 PSA cards available. Hello to everyone and feel free to reach out to me.

               Bill

Oh, and welcome Bill. I know I’ve dealt with you many times before in your pursuits of completing other sets

@PaulMaul said:

@81 Topps Guy said:
I heard from the seller (Matt) who sold the Expos team card; he said it was a consignment piece and that the card got bumped from an 8 to a 9. Decent 8, weak sauce 9. Really surprised PSA would bump a tough low pop that wasn’t exactly a blazer 8

If it was a bump why would it have a new cert number?

seriously, ?

Bump as in reviewed and grade increased.

@lawyer05 said:

@PaulMaul said:
Bump as in reviewed and grade increased.

so if the grade is increased , dont they have to put it in a new cert number ?

Any bumps I’ve gotten come in a new holder with the old cert number. Just repeating what the seller said, he’s always been a straight shooter so I’m sure it’s true.

the #1 Topps 1972 is being broken on ebay ?

Is it really a set break if there's only 49 cards?

The guy selling those cards owns the number 1 set, but the cards he’s been selling are just extras, not the number 1 set itself. False advertising.

The number 1 set is almost all 10s.

The card below is available for sale or trade. I’m working on the set, but I’m not a PSA 10 guy. I bought it raw on eBay. It’s one of 8. Last one sold for more than $800.

SOLD.

That does look really sharp. I've been looking for a nice Speier In Action for a while now and he was auctioning off a PSA 9 that was laughably bad. Presumably he's upgraded to a PSA 10 or upgraded from that particular 9. It does make you wonder though, # 1 set or not, how many cards in his set have eye appeal that's not so eye-appealing.

Very happy with this pickup. Common 9 but I really like this copy.

Did someone just buy basically all of the PSA 10s on the market?

Every 4SC PSA 10 is gone. A bunch of Probstein's too.

If that Mets' Team card went for ~$1500 ... Wow ... I bought that card from Novick for $175. Pays to be a card dealer!

I noticed that too. Seems like the only ones left are so far overpriced they'll be there forever. I had bid on 2 PSA 10's last night, thought my bids were very aggressive and lost both.

@JRR300 said:
just checked the auctions I had bid on and the others I had watched on EBAY. All won by the same person. Looks like they want them all, no matter what the price

This guy’s not fooling around! In five days he went from 14.87% to 40.79%, and it appears to be all 10s!

@JRR300 said:
Just bought another one today from Probstein. Larry Dierker, Pd $449!

Must be nice

@PaulMaul said:
This isn’t his first rodeo!

https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/bulldog79/othersets/49329

He's collecting '84 Topps too. NICE

looks like he uses a snipe service. if he does this and bids crazy money, I guess there's no way to outbid him if he wants something?????

thanks....haven't come across this before. will just lay low for a while.