It's a weird netherworld, Frank.  Steroids weren't banned but they were illegal w/o a prescription, so McGwire and Sosa and the rest of them never should have had them at all.  I guess in a sense they were banned before they were banned.  
 
Yes, I am a lawyer.
But I digress.  
The first thing I thought when I saw that Gehrig (esp the LL corner) was that it was intentionally rounded, maybe to aid in flipping it or doing something else with it, like this O'Doul:
 
If I submit that card I get an "A" 99% of the time a "1" the other 1%.