I found a bunch on ebay of some of the Phillies I wanted to complete those years' team sets. The graded cards were had for about $3 - $4 each - the price I was willing to pay for the equivalent card ungraded. Since my entire Phillies collection is in pages in binders, it didn't make sense to have these "commons" PSA graded (they ranged from 4.5 to 6, nothing outstanding). I did pick up one that I left graded - it's the Sparky Anderson RC (I for get the grade now, but it was decent), and it came with a pretty good story. It looks like I'm the 3rd owner of the card. The guy who pulled it from a pack back in the 1950s had just sold it to the guy I bought it from. I forget now which one of them had it graded. But, since it's a nice enough card, it sits on display. But the commons, I broke out.
Oh, and I had bought the 1992 Fleer Update set and 3 or 4 of the "key" RCs (or XRCs, as the case may be ) were slabbed. Again, since I had put the regular and update sets in pages, out they came. (And the price of the set was the lowest one I saw on ebay for a pretty long stretch, hence the reason I bought it.)
-- Dan --
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