[Vintagevault13]

Originally Posted by the 'stache

Pin holes add personality to a card. That Jackson is beautiful, and the pinhole tells me that somebody proudly displayed and loved the card.

"Mint" is nice, but after a while, when fretting over the semantics of "mint", "near-mint", "pristine", etc, the reason behind collecting them in the first place gets lost. Baseball cards are meant to be handled, and enjoyed. And how much are we really enjoying them behind plastic slabs, and stuck away in a bank vault?

I've been seriously rethinking this whole graded card thing.

Amen! Having the same thoughts.