Ozzie Smith’s Tough To Find Mint 1979 Topps Rookie Card
There is no bigger card in the 1979 Topps set than Ozzie Smith’s rookie card.
I had one of these cards as a kid and eventually traded it away(I’m sure that I got the short-end of that stick!).
It is very hard to find a well centered Smith rookie card for some reason. I don’t know if it was a manufacturing defect, but most of the Smith rookies I was able to find back then, and now on eBay as well, are cut pretty badly. With a large and uneven border on the left, and a thin and slight border on the right being the norm, if you were able to find a well-centered Ozzie Smith rookie card, it carried a hefty price tag.
Today there are no less than 250 of Ozzie’s rookie cards circulating on eBay. And if you look closely, probably 95% of them are badly centered.
For this card, the quest to find a nice one is certainly worth the wait!!!
Nice ‘Chops’ Ozzie!!!
I was lucky enough to find a perfectly centered card in a set I had bought a couple years back. Ironically, it never occured to me to have it graded. LOL Definitely a classic card!
My sister in law found me a box of free baseball cards on Craig’s list last December. When I opened it up on the top was one of the best centered Ozzie rookies I’ve ever seen. I really lucked out.
Q- I’d say so!! Three cheers for the Sister-in-law!!