Fake autographs and complaints about PSA -- in 1996
 

Today I was sorting my Sports Collectors Digests from 1992-1999 (when it was often 300 pages and 2 sections), and on the cover of the April 5, 1996 issue I saw the teaser headline, "PSA Cards Still Draw Controversy". Inside on pages 80-81 was an article about whether PSA (by then already the dominant TPG) was a good thing for the hobby, and whether people were paying too much for PSA 9s and 10s. The issue also had a shorter article about efforts to fight fake autographs in the hobby. Given how relevant both of those issues still are today, I thought people might like to see how the hobby was handling them 23 years ago.

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Really very interesting series of articles. Funny how Barry Halper was saying ..."whatever makes money promotes thievery".

Also found it interesting that they were trying to advance universal grading standards and gave a brief mention of the coin grading scandal.