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Originally Posted by RedsFan1941
i am not saying that Ted’s theory about the year of issue is incorrect. i am saying he is wrong in placing blame on PSA, SGC, etc.
i know for a fact, because I was there, that 20 years before grading companies existed, collectors and price guides referred to the Leaf set as being issued in 1948. I bet ted knows this too if he was collecting in the 70s.
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Beckett listed it as a 1948-49 set not a 1948 set. The card pictured in the price guide is Joe DiMaggio. The first line of the bio is "Smashed out 39 home runs (tops) and 190 hits for a .320 average last season." Those are his stats from 1948. How is a card a 1948 card when it lists his 1948 sets as being last year?
We are asking common sense questions. How is it placed as a 1948 set when (all?) current players have 1948 stats and several refer to those stats as last year? Who changed the year from 1948-49 and what was the basis for that change? When I collected, it was never referred to as a 1948 set. How is it that kids can read the backs of the cards and figure out they are 1949 cards, but dealers and (serious?) collectors never read the backs of cards and just called them 1948? PSA from the earliest time called them incorrectly 1948, so don't they at least have some responsibility for the error? We all know the power of their flip and with some simple research they could have got it right.