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Posted By: JimCrandell

I was sitting in the lobby of SGC a while back and a guy walks in with a Mickey Mantle rookie card. He was getting married and wanted to have the card graded which he would then sell to finance his honeymoon, down payment on a house etc. He proudly showed it to me and said its either a 7.5 or an 8--what do you think? Something about the card looked funny and I said maybe a 7 if it grades. He laughed but 30 minutes later he came out stunned that the card had been altered--actually more than stunned--almost in tears.

Thank God for the grading companies--now if they just continue to improve.