First Day Issue PSA Mailday

graham · Nov 30, 2006

Another one to the first year PSA 9 collection!

94/95 Stadium Club are surprisingly tough to get in decent condition - I opened about 5 boxes of the stuff and pulled only one Hill that didn't have a soft corner or two.

First Day Issues come one per box, so with 182 cards in the set, theoretically this card is 1:182 boxes, or 1:4368 packs.

What's funny is that I have this one in PSA 9 before I have the actual RC in PSA 9.

Pop report on this one is 6 graded, 3 9's and 3 8's!

Enjoy!

Matt26 · Nov 30, 2006

Great stuff Graham! Glad to see your graded RC list slowly getting closer to that 100%

Cheers
Matt

Benny J · Nov 30, 2006

Nice work Graham....did you grade this one yourself or buy it this way??

I am assuming PSA dont do half grades (i.e - PSA9.5?)

Also, is there any reason why they are hard to find in good nick??

bas · Nov 30, 2006

congrats on getting one of the top hill rc graded cards , have u got refractor and cchoice gold graded rc's yet

graham · Nov 30, 2006

Sure do Bas!

$9495_finest_240_refractor_psa10.jpg$

bas · Nov 30, 2006

thats alright gettin the gold sig (9) considering how condition sensitive they are, well done

Yoshi · Nov 30, 2006

Great card, goodluck with the others.

Moses · Nov 30, 2006

Very nice. Congrats on having one of the three.

ScottE · Nov 30, 2006

Very nice grade Graham.

buyingstuffformikelee · Nov 30, 2006

Man, you have the craziest Grant Hills man.

Sweet stuff indeed, the Finest refractor is just plain beautiful :-)

WoobieZarz · Nov 30, 2006

Ahhh, the First Day Issue, didnt realise what was so hard about pulling them till I re-read it.

Great grade G, top effort!!

chadjaja · Nov 30, 2006

Nice card :-D

Just think of all the kudos you could have got if this board was around in Hill's rookie year but its 2006 and now you just cop crap off me :-P

graham · Nov 30, 2006

Thanks guys, Chad knows how excited I was when I found this one on Ebay.

Benny J said:
Also, is there any reason why they are hard to find in good nick??

Not sure mate, I expected buying a few boxes that most cards would come out pretty minty mint, but a lot of cards come out with slightly damaged corners or slight chipping. Not bad enough that you would worry about it if you were collecting the raw ones - but if you are looking to get them graded you want minty mint 4 sharp corners, no chipping etc. Out of the 8 or so Hills I got, only 1 was what I considered PSA 10 material. It is at PSA now, so see how correct I was when those grades come in.

clarkescards · Nov 30, 2006

Nice Hill RC's, especially the 2 x Gem grades, and more especially on the SP. Damn they'd be hard to find in that condition.

graham · Dec 3, 2006

clarkescards said:
more especially on the SP. Damn they'd be hard to find in that condition.

Damn right mate. I just checked the pop report and it's now only 5 x 10's, with 385 x 9's & 1396 x 8's !!

Dream34 · Dec 4, 2006

Congrats on some solid grades there GMAN, your really going grade crazy hey

nandalinnaung · Dec 6, 2006

great pick-up... I hope he stays a couple of more years and bring Larry O' Brien's trophy to FLorida...but this time, ORLANDO..

hehe, i can dream, can't I?

First Day Issue PSA Mailday

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