For my money, this is one of the best cards of the 70's. A horizontal layout with the crowd wonderfully blurred in the background (Dave Kingman has a similar looking card), coupled with the fact that the hairy-armed Garvey captured the MVP award that year, makes it a quintessential piece of 1974 cardboard. With apologies to Billy Crystal, let's call tonight's episode
You Look Garv-uh-lous...
(These cards were randomly placed in three rows, so there is no underlying rhyme or reason to the layout. As always...no cheating!!)
Pictured here is a sextet of 1974 Topps Steve Garvey cards. Each one of them has been graded as a straight PSA 9, except one - only one - which was deemed PSA 9 OC. In looking at the entire group, they all seem perfectly fine for those of us in the non-OCD crowd. Really marvelous. None jump out as
OFF CENTER!!!!!!
So, which one got the OC qualifier?
(The top row contains cards #1 and 2, the second row 3 and 4 and the bottom row has cards 5 and 6.)
(On a side note, the average price of the five straight PSA 9's pictured here is almost six times as much as what the one with the OC on the label cost. Six times as much!!! Truly stunning.)