I'm "ripping" 5 1980 Basketball wax packs (come on Bird, Magic!)

rbdjr1

What a pleasant surprise to see 5 1980 basketball wax packs in one of the Fun Bags I opened.

U don't see too many 1980 basketball rips, or for that matter I have not noticed any vintage basketball "rips" at all!

So, I thought u would be interested in seing if I pull a Larry Bird, Magic, etc.!

The first of 5 packs:

seven of eight cards are not centered (including a Pete Maravich)!

one with decent centering (Paul Wstphal, Scoring Leader) has a nice "ding" on the top edge!

well a nice Team pin-up of the Bulls, plus a 26 year old pice of gum!

rd

XanaduNow

Ouch. Too bad about that dinged edge. That would have been a sweet Cowens/Westphal. Jamal Wilkes wasn't exactly Acie Earl either. That's a nice card.

Now ... C'MON BIRD/MAGIC!

Arthur

gameusedhoop

There is ONLY one Acie Earl. I was at a Celtics practice, they ran a play where the ball was fed into the middle to Acie, he was supposed to fake right, turn left and take the shot. Play goes on, looks good and all then you hear the coach (think it was Chris Ford), yell from the sidelines. Good job, now let's try your other LEFT Acie. Next thing you see is Eddie Pinckney come over, get a marker from the play board, go over and label Earl's feet L and R. True story.

Speaking of Pinckney, he and Rick Fox were doing an auto thing for charity, I had a bunch of the old Sacramento Kings uniforms and warm ups that were worn by Pinckney. I bring the stuff up and put it on the table, Fox takes one look at the stuff and says "nice Eddie, baby blue and white, you had to wear that stuff?" Pinckney replies "yeah, just like you wore at North Carolina". Fox replies "Ok, you got me". Once again, true story.

Stone193

No matter what rd - it looks like a lot of fun!

mike

rbdjr1

ripped the other 4 packs:

U gotta just love those polyester jackets of the celtics' coaches (i.e., the Celtics "Pin-up" Pic, looks like Red Aurbach & Bill Fill Fitch, no?)

rd

XanaduNow

One word: AWESOME

That Bird is besutiful and I love that Team pin up. Rbd, how big is that? I'm assuming the size of 4 cards?

Arthur

Bob, could you PM me the info on this? I'd like to see if I could pick up one of these. Thanks

Bosox1976

Great Pack! I think the Bird/Magic/Erving is lurking...

XanaduNow

<< <i>Great Pack! I think the Bird/Magic/Erving is lurking... >>



Crack 'em all Bob!

Arthur

isellhomeszach

VERY NICE CARDS MAN!!!
If anyone is looking for High quality mint nrmint cards from this set....I bought about 800 cards off ebay 6 months ago and they all look like they came straight from the pack. I got them all for like 76.00. I have about everything EXCEPT the Bird and Magic Cards. Email me and i can check to see if i have the card you are looking for.

shagrotn77

A lot of collectors don't like the '80 basketball set for some reason, but I think it's pretty cool. I mean how could you get any cooler than Magic Johnson and Larry Bird sharing the SAME rookie card, one that also included Dr. J??? A few years back I decided to collect every Bird and Magic card in the set in PSA 9. There are 9 in all. It was a fun chase!

1980 PSA 9's