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Jeff LichtmanI like what Jim Dale said. The old days in the 70s of just one Topps set coming out was great -- so what if it was a monopoly?
And while graded cards certainly has had its share of evils, favoritism and corruption, the fact is most of us would agree that it provides a great protection against those that would sell us trimmed cards. Granted, many dealers still trim and/or alter cards and get them into slabs or higher numbered slabs (including some posters on this board), but I can only imagine how bad it was before slabs came about.