Off-centered cards you love anyway...

[GasHouseGang]

Back before centering was “all the rage”, that’s the kind of card you might have picked out of a stack of 54 Hank Aaron cards because it has the best corners and gloss. Nice card!

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

Back before centering was “all the rage”, that’s the kind of card you might have picked out of a stack of 54 Hank Aaron cards because it has the best corners and gloss. Nice card!

Yes and I'd still pick it today over a duller perfectly centered copy with touched corners. To each their own.

[Promethius88]

It bothers me a little, but I still love it. The registration and lack of snow/print dots is great.

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

Back before centering was “all the rage”, that’s the kind of card you might have picked out of a stack of 54 Hank Aaron cards because it has the best corners and gloss. Nice card!

Exactly...

For my sets I go for or will upgrade in the following order -

1. Creases (NO CREASES)
2. Corners
3. Centering
4. Gloss

I do upgrade anything off center to the point the border is gone or barely there. But I'd take an OC with sharp corners and no creases all day long vs a card with soft corners and a wrinkle that is centered.

Some cards I've seen I just don't get where the grader can say OC...

[steve B]

I like the Holtzman in this scan, I got it from a pack in 74, and just liked how weird it was. It spent a long time in the binder with the cards I liked the most.


The 75 was a close second, until I found out that it was sheet cut that way after the factory.

[Exhibitman]

Centering? Who gives a shit...

[MikeGarcia]

..The card has such great subject matter and crisp cornering and brilliant pack-fresh color and looks so good in the old original Sports Card Digest Magazine-graded holder and was probably examined by Bob L. himself and I've had it forever sooooooo I can grit my teeth and overlook the 90-10 side-to-side . The subgrade for "Centering" is "7" ; the Bob Lemon centering subgrade is a "10". Rare.

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[ZiggerZagger]

As a non-recovering centering addict, I have a "thing" about O/C
But I *had* to buy the '56 Clemente here at the 2017 National, and I absolutely love it.

The '55 isn't really that bad centering-wise, but enough to bother me a bit normally.
But it was my last purchase from Wayne Johnson before he passed recently -- it has great color, but even better sentimental value. I'll always remember it as his card.

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[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Those two Clementes are both very nice!!

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

..The card has such great subject matter and crisp cornering and brilliant pack-fresh color and looks so good in the old original Sports Card Digest Magazine-graded holder and was probably examined by Bob L. himself and I've had it forever sooooooo I can grit my teeth and overlook the 90-10 side-to-side . The subgrade for "Centering" is "7" ; the Bob Lemon centering subgrade is a "10". Rare.

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The Power Hitters card? That's nowhere near 90/10 s-s.