Certified, Qualified and Glorified!!!

[JollyElm]

Three Under Par??

The 1964 Topps #331 A.L. Bombers/Mantle is a beautiful card that is slightly pushed to the right, but there's plenty of breathing room over there. In a vacuum, the 1964 Topps Stand-Up Orlando Cepeda looks absolutely, perfectly fine. Nothing wrong whatsoever. The name plate is virtually dead centered, so it's only by examining other cards graded PSA 8 do you realize that it is just a touch too close to the bottom to warrant a straight grade. You would never think anything's amiss if you looked at the card by its lonesome. Oh well. I don't really collect football cards, but 1970 Topps #87 Bob Lilly makes the fifth HOF'er from the set that I've picked up in PSA 9 OC shape. They are generally gotten pretty cheaply, which is nice. With the thin white borders, it only takes a hair's width to deem those cards O/C (Although Bob really doesn't look all that bad, it is BY FAR the most OC of my quintet. How funny is that?)...

[JollyElm]

4-on-the-Floor.

A couple of Hall of Famers caught in very insignificant 'snow' flurries, a very decent looking Gil Hodges, and the 1961 Topps high number, #559 Jim Gentile, is just a bear to come by in high grade, so I grabbed this slightly hinky O/C one just to get it...

[JollyElm]

Top of the POPs...

Here is an awesome foursome of extremely sharp-cornered cards with beautiful (3 out of the 4) centering that have ridiculously low pops, so I'm happy to have them in any way, shape or form. The 1958 Topps Harry Anderson #171 has six straight 9's and three with qualifiers, 1958 Topps Murray Wall #410 has four 9's and two with Q's, the 1962 Topps Herb Score #116 Green Tint has only a pair of straight 9's and the card pictured is the only one found with a (in my mind, ill-gotten) qualifier, and the 1971 Topps Jerry Robertson #651 high number has a total of six nines and four with qualifiers. Although a bit off-center, his perfect borders and corners couldn't possibly get any more blacker...