We need an '80s Collectors Coalition

[HasselhoffsCheeseburger]

There are seemingly hundreds of interesting errors and variations that have no chance of getting recognized by any of the third party graders. No one takes the decade seriously. While I don't care about slabbing cards to make money, I do believe that an active pop report would be a valuable resource in determining an EorV's rarity and condition sensitivity.

I think if we got a group of collectors together that could both pass an official judgment on a card's status but also be able to then provide proper information to the research departments we might actually get some of these things we love recognized officially.

I think Dylan, Al, and Bob would be a good start. That would cover the entire decade. I have no doubt there are other worthy members, I just don't post here enough to know them.

But nobody is going to suddenly care about the 1980s if we don't force their hand. Plus, for the life of me, I can never figure out why the TPGers are so reluctant to label variations when it only increases submissions for them. I don't know, I'm just spitballing.

Arthur

[ALR-bishop]

This sounds gang related Arthur.

There are a lot of 80s variant collectors who have posted in the 80-present thread here. Bet there would be a lot of interest

Have you checked out this effort ? Their parameters may be more restrictive that what you envision but a great effort and a little flexible

http://baseballcardvariationsguidebo...wordpress.com/

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

This sounds gang related Arthur.

There are a lot of 80s variant collectors who have posted in the 80-present thread here. Bet there would be a lot of interest

Have you checked out this effort ? Their parameters may be more restrictive that what you envision but a great effort and a little flexible

http://baseballcardvariationsguidebo...wordpress.com/

As a person who has spent most of the past 30 years (and it was on and off) working on various errors and variations on sports cards I can't give a definition on the borderline so what may be a variation to you might not be to me.

Regards
Rich

[ALR-bishop]

Agreed that getting agreement on a specific definition is unlikely and that a complete list of all recurring variants in a card may be an endless task but there have been a few folks in the hobby, like you, Nozaki, Giilkeson, Dingman and now Cady who have done their best to do so

[HasselhoffsCheeseburger]

Well, I think #1 in order for it to be considered it has to be pulled from multiple different sources. Pulling 2 or 3 copies from the same source doesn't count. That's know as the Rick Wrona Rule.

Arthur

[ALR-bishop]

Rules ? We are going to have rules ?

[HasselhoffsCheeseburger]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Rules ? We are going to have rules ?

The Rick Wrona Rule is probably the most well-known rule in the entire universe, with a distinct outlier being Guam, where 98% of the population knnew of the rule, and is exchanged as currency in many countries.

That's actually a quote from he book "Smartest Shit Alive."

Where's your completely admissible in court proof? Huh?

Arthur

[ALR-bishop]

Hopefully Guam is still upright