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Making the Grade II: Corey Seager Pristine, a WrestleMania upstart, two legends & Sheldon Cooper's shirt
Like many collectors, Buzz is a fan of grading and knows that there are many reasons that collectors choose to slab cards. Sometimes it's to enhance the appeal and protect them when selling. Other times it's to protect an investment for the long-term or to protect for sentimental reasons. Or, it might be just for fun or curiosity about a potential grade.
Here's the second grading diary here on The Buzz ...
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This entry was posted in Baseball, Football, Non-sports, Pro Wrestling, Making the Grade and tagged Barry Sanders, Beckett Grading Services, BGS, Corey Seager, Cryptozoic, Los Angeles Dodgers, Nolan Ryan, NXT, Panini America, Sasha Banks, Texas Rangers, The Big Bang Theory, Topps, USA Baseball, WWE, WWE Divas, 1990 Pro Set, 2012 Big Bang Theory Seasons 3-4, 2012 Panini Cooperstown, 2015 Panini USA Baseball Stars & Stripes, 2015 Topps WWE Heritage, California Angels, Detroit Lions, Grading DIary, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Pro Set, Sheldon Cooper, WrestleMania 32 on March 29, 2016 by BlowoutBuzz.
Buzz List: Five top Santa Claus cards *serious* collectors need right now
With the holiday season here, cardboard is probably on the minds of many Buzz readers as they wonder what might await them soon.
Others, like Buzz, might be thinking of Cardboard of Christmas Past -- you know, some of the Santa Claus trading cards we've seen throughout the years. Most of it's trivial and not all that collectable -- but they all stand out in a way compared to our traditional sports cards.
1989 Pro Set Promos #1989
When Dallas-based Pro Set created this card during its first season of making football cards in 1989, it sparked a trend that we saw in not just football cards but other areas in the years that followed. (Boy are there some bad Photoshop jobs there in the 1990s.) For all intents and purposes, though, Buzz would call this one a "Rookie Card." Yes, there were previous non-sports cards -- but this was the one that put cards like this on the minds of the sports-collecting masses after it was mailed out to dealers and selected NFL-related people.
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This entry was posted in Football, Buzz List and tagged Connor McDavid, Ken Griffey Jr., Kobe Bryant, Mark McGwire, Topps, Upper Deck, Wayne Gretzky, 1989 Pro Set, 1990 Pro Set, 1991 Pro Line, 1992 Pro Line, 1998 Upper Deck Santa Claus, 2013 Topps Strata, Dionte Christmas, Karima Christmas, Kevin Garnett, Maurice Christmas, Pro Line, Pro Set, Rakeem Christmas, Reggie Jackson, Santa Claus, Stephen Christmas, Tiger Woods, Todd Claus on December 21, 2015 by BlowoutBuzz.

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