Could these cards be too rare for their own good? Rumorville has it that PSA and SGC refused to grade them. This left Old Faithful in Beckett to slab them. Makes me wonder just how much money the Mantle would have fetched if in a PSA holder? It wouldnt surprise me with "new" ownership that these cards find their way into a PSA holder. Then the question would be, who convinced PSA to magically change their mind?
I know of another story that involves a single signed Lou Gehrig ball and PSA refused to grade it. After the ball was won for a song at a smaller AH, PSA had a change of heart and graded it. Then the ball magically showed up in a bigger auction and did really good. Im pretty sure their are other stories like this out there.
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Love Ty Cobb rare items and baseball currency from the 19th Century.
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