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Yep, here's more evidence of the Foundation of Great Collections and their astounding ability to read the names on the cards in front of them. Guess the QC guy was sick they day they slabbed this card - thankfully I was able to tell the difference between Hugh Jennings and Walter Johnson, and thus make the right decision when hitting the BIN on this card.

Frequent competency issues coupled with a fundamental lack of understanding of your own customer base does not make for a promising business outlook.

PSA switched to half grades today.

Most colossally stupid decision I've ever seen in business.

Boy, today was fun. Tomorrow, better.

Gold Medal Foods cards don't really qualify under any of the sets I'm currently collecting, but since I have a small fascination for the 1934 Tigers and Cardinals, since this is a small set, and since I always wanted to collect this set anyway, I allowed myself the luxury over the holiday of placing a bid on a lot that was listed incorrectly, in the wrong category.

I won the lot - thanks to my friend Dan's snipe program failing to fire - for a ridiculously low price. When the cards arrived, I was extremely pleased with the quality (and with the original envelope they came in - which I subsequently seem to have lost).

Sent 'em in to SGC, and they all graded very high. Only two cards from this set have ever graded as high as SGC 92, and this rogell is one of them.


Here are the others, equally pleasing: