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Less Than $20 Landed Me A Johnny Bench PSA Graded 1968 Topps Rookie!

It's not the steal of the century or close to it but this will always be one of my favorite vintage deals. I landed this awesome Johnny Bench rookie card back in 2016 for $11.49 shipped to my door, ungraded. The front is VG but the back is POOR as the sky is blue due to big-time paper loss. Getting it graded for protection was a very easy choice when the cost was just $8.

A PSA 1 is plenty good enough for my collecting desires and I'd rather own a really aesthetically-pleasing low-grade copy of any vintage card than shell out big bucks just to have a pissing contest with the rest of the hobby over who has the nicest version of a card and paid the price of a house to land that "honor.