Alan Hager - not off-topic exactly, just weird . . .

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Thanks for sharing this pic of the 6-sport!
The fine members of net54 are helping me fight my illness with these great threads regarding the various controversies of our beloved hobby. I enjoy the posts that mark our history.
Anyone that has Dennis Purdy's Vintage Magazine with the Hager article please post your comments or p/m me your comments.
Anyone know what Dennis Purdy's doing these days? I'd love to read his extra pages regarding the Hager article. Dennis referred to these pages as the "Paul Harvey pages!"
Now that were on a roll, anyone recall the Vermont Cards fiasco of the mid-80's? Thanks all, and have a great weekend.

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Last I knew Alan Hager lives outside Orlando. I visited his house years ago and bought about 10 x 1926 Spalding football cards. They were actually in PSA holders. He told me that he bought the entire 1926 Spalding Ad back group (all sports) from Robet Edward Auctions (all sports). He told me REA did not realize that the Ad Backs were different and much rare than the Bio/Stat backs and didn't advertise them that way so he spent thousands and bought them all.
This was the basis for my PSA Registry set. I actually went to his house and bought the cards. He did tell me that it was he that invented the 10-point grading system that PSA uses. He was getting paid royalties by PSA for its use for a period of time. He pulled some of the cards off Ebay and forgot to close the auction. A week later someone one bid on one of the cards and he tried to offer me a ASA-8 for my PSA-8 and to trade back. He said he couldn't afford anymore negative feedbacks (wink). I didn't think that was a fair trade since he could have run into his basement and put anything into a ASA holder. No matter what anyone says on this board - here is a perfect example of why third party authentication (although faulty at times) is better than nothing.