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Cards get cracked, pressed, touched up, and resubmitted too often. The Hobby compiles the provenance of a card, from owners, sale, and grading to alteration and quantity pulled, so the number on the slab tells the whole truth.

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Cross referenced with: 30+ sources

Grading population reports · Auction houses · Marketplaces · Card shops · Sold-price databases · The open web

Card of the Week · Jul 27 – 2Verified
Michael Jordan 2000 SP Top Prospects · Game Used Bats 30/45, graded BGS 8

Michael Jordan

2000 SP Top Prospects · Game Used Bats · #MJau

30/45
BGS 8NM-MT

CERT #0019714759

Centering 9.5 · Corners 8 · Edges 7 · Surface 8.5

  1. On-card autograph · numbered 30/45

    Hand-signed, serial-numbered to 45 copies

  2. Game-used bat relic

    Birmingham Barons, 100% authentic swatch

  3. Graded BGS 8 · current slab

    Cert #0019714759 · NM-MT (9.5 / 8 / 7 / 8.5)

The Hobby Reportsourced
Cracked & regradedDuplicate grading

PSA 5 → cracked → BGS 8

2 gradings resolve to the same physical card, serial 30/45. It was cracked out of its earlier slab and resubmitted — a fresh cert would have hidden the earlier grade.

Grading history · 2 on one card

  1. PSA 5 EX 5same card
    2021-01-01

    Source: Fanatics Collect listing (serial 30/45)

  2. cracked & resubmitted
    BGS 8 NM-MT 8same card
    CERT #00197147592023-01-01

    Source: Beckett Cert Verification

Print run · 45 copies

1 pulled & verified of 45. Census floor: ≥20 pulled. The rest are unaccounted for — not necessarily unpulled.

Source: The Hobby projection + grader pop reports

Published gradings

  • 30/45thisBGS 8

Sources swept · 9

  • The Hobby index· Serial resolution
  • PSA· Grading / pop census
  • Beckett (BGS)· Grading
  • Alt· Sold data + population census
  • Fanatics Collect· Marketplace + photos
  • Heritage· Auction archive
  • Goldin· Auction archive
  • eBay · PriceCharting· Sold history
  • Vision read· Serial / grade off photos

The Industry's Integrity

Card grading is a snapshot. Provenance is the whole story.

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What's been pulled and what remains sealed

A population report counts gradings, not cards, so regrades quietly inflate it. The Hobby maps how many distinct copies of a numbered run have actually surfaced, and estimates how many are still unpulled, so you see the true scarcity behind the print run.

02

Cracked & Resubmitted

Follow a single card as it moves across PSA, CGC, BGS and SGC. See when a 10 today was an 8 two grades ago, the history a fresh cert number quietly erases.

03

One cert, whole lineage

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STEP 02

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We cross-reference population reports, auction archives, grading records and break footage into one timeline.

STEP 03

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