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Jim CrandellWill comes from a board(LTS) where many consider 1980 vintage and where PSA is considered by many to be infallible.
Virtually all my cards are graded by PSA but I consider them to be third in quality of the three major grading companies.
Over a year ago I submitted nearly 500 cards to PSA that I thought had a shot at psa 8(1960s vintage). Roughly half came back less. A dealer then went through these--broke out about 85 cards that he thought were wrongly graded--and about 85% came back with a higher grade--some went up by 2 or 3 grades.
Like a previous poster, I believe that the quality of their service started deteriorating when they reportedly went to the "one-and-out" system where just one grader looks at a card before it is slabbed.
I think Baker is the premeir grader in the industry overall bbut like a previous poster I think that for pre--war I would rank sgc first. Hooray for Dave Forman for emphasizing quality.