A Graded Card Goal That I Never Planned

 I have still never sent a card for grading.  I don't collect graded cards at all.  So, how did I end up with an entire box of cards graded by Beckett or PSA?  Here is a sample of some of these cards and how they ended up in my collection.

I remember buying this in the last two years at the National.  I liked the coloring and the price - I paid $7 maybe.  I wasn't finding anything else and I wanted to get a few 1971s that look decent.  Not many 1971s have nice coloring like this one.

This is not the one I bought at a show last week.  I have no memory of getting this one, so it must have been part of a set purchase online.  It is actually not a 1972 Kellogg's card; it is a 1970 Rold Gold.  Since I don't follow PSA much, I don't know if/when they started to properly flag these as 1970 Rold Gold when it is obvious from the back of the card which one it is.  

I bought a handful of Pete Rose cards that were graded a long time ago.  Why?  It seemed like a good price.  

I remember buying a set that had a few cards graded.  Why do I remember that?  Since I don't keep the graded cards with my set, I then had to figure out how to get a Ryan that isn't graded.  Yes, some of you would save that I should crack the card out of the holder, but I haven't done that yet.  Not that there is anything wrong with doing that.  

This Brett was my first PSA card purchase.  I remember wanting to buy it because the colors were so bright and none of my 1975s look to be any color like this one.  If I started by saying I had a 1975 Brett PSA 10 I would probably get a lot more attention to my post. 

Really, I am not a Pete Rose fan.  Since I have so few cards and I want to show one from each year, here is Rose again.  

Sneaking into the newer cards and the "why did someone grade it" part of this post.  I didn't pay any premium for a set that contained this Carlton.    

I remember buying a 1978 set with two graded cards - Ryan and Tanana.  A big Angels fan?  Really, those were the two cards that they decided to grade.  I guess grading was affordable back then, so no big deal.  

I don't have any graded Kellogg's cards from 1981-83.  I was surprised to get this Brett card in a bulk purchase a few years ago.  

Without paying attention, I have at least one graded card from every set of the 1970s except for 1972 and 1979.  Next year I will make it a point to get a card from those sets.  I may even consider getting a graded card from the 1981 - 1983 sets if they can be found for a few dollars.

I have some 1970 football cards that are graded, but I don't have any from 1971.  I might try that as well next year.