Mike Schmidt
Baseball • 1983 Leaf Candy Baseball
Sport & Year
Baseball • 1983
Brand & Set
Leaf - 1983 Leaf Candy Baseball
Card Number
2
Card Type
Veteran
Rarity
Standard (Food Issue)
Parallel Variant & Language
Base • English
Condition & Value Assessment
Condition Grade
Excellent (EX 5)
Estimated Market Value
$5.00 - $15.00 (Raw); $40.00 - $75.00 (PSA 8-9)
Recent Sales
Raw copies typically sell for $5-$10 on eBay. Graded PSA 9 copies have recently sold in the $60-$80 range, while PSA 10s command a significant premium due to the difficulty of finding clean edges on this black-bordered set.
Condition Details
Moderate surface wear and chipping visible along the bottom edge black border. Corners show light rounding. Centering is fairly good but slightly shifted bottom-to-top. Surface appears mostly clean with no major creases visible through the top loader.
Grading Recommendation
Only worth grading if the card is pristine to secure a PSA 9 or 10. Given the visible chipping on the bottom edge, it is likely to grade a 5 or 6, making the cost of grading higher than the resulting market value.
Card Description
Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies shown in a follow-through batting pose wearing the classic Phillies pinstripe uniform. The card features a distinctive teal top header with the Leaf logo, a glove icon, a 'two-men' icon, and a batter silhouette icon. The bottom left features the Phillies 'P' logo.
Notable Features
Hall of Fame player. This was a regional food issue distributed by Leaf Candy in 1983. It features rounded corners as part of the original manufacturing design.
Authentication Notes
Authentic Leaf Candy issue. The color saturation, card stock thickness, and specific iconography for this obscure 80s set are consistent with known originals.
Scanned: 2026-06-27T19:52:33.744312