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Originally Posted by bobsbbcards
VCP shows a striking premium for white backs in this range (PSA 7 average prices):
102 Jim Davis - 10x
103 Willie Miranda - 5x
104 Bob Lennon - 6x
105 Al Smith - 6x
106 Joe Astroth - 3x
107 Ed Mathews - 1.3x
108 Laurin Pepper - 5x
109 Enos Slaughter - .8x (an outlier)
110 Yogi Berra - no white backs recorded
111 Red Sox Team - 11x
112 Dee Fondy - 4x
113 Phil Rizzuto - 4x
114 Jim Owens - 2x
115 Jackie Jensen - 8x
etc.
132 Bobby Avila seems to have the highest premium with an average price of $453.85 for a white back and $24.13 for a gray back for a ratio of 19 to 1.
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Ah, but I was focusing on the more typical sales of raw low/mid grade cards. And for those, recent ebay figures for #s 102 through 115 above all have many raw white back sales with little to no premium.
But if you look at #153 Frank Thomas, it's an entirely different situation. There's hasn't been one sold on ebay since April, and it was $275 (best offer accepted) for a miscut one. There's also a creased Thomas on a fb group that had just been posted and was already up to $100.
#132 Avila is actually another exception. The premium for those isn't quite as exaggerated as the Thomas, but it's also much tougher to find and commands many times the grey back.
Which circles back to my original question: what makes Thomas, Avila, and a few select others so different, regardless of the grade?