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BlackborderBlackborder Posts: 2,797 ✭
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And tell us the story behind it. Thanks!

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  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    hoisted from ebay, the first time I saw this card I had NOOOOOO idea who it was..


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  • ICE9ICE9 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭
    I couldn't choose just one. There were three Michael Jordan cards in the 1984 Star regular season issue. The first was the famous #101, these are the other two which came in the Olympic/Specilas bag. I paid $600 for the bagged set in 1999, which was probably way too much at that point. Anyhow, I like 'em.

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    Mike
    "Must these Englishmen Live That I Might Die? Must They Live That I Might Die?" - The Blue Oyster Cult
  • twoinartwoinar Posts: 13 ✭✭
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    03-04 Topps Gold/99 (249/249 100%)
    04-05 Topps Gold/99 (146/249 58.6%)
    05-06 Topps Gold/99 (245/255 96.1%)
    05-06 Topps Overtime/1 ( 24/255 9.4%)
    06-07 Topps Black/99 ( 213/307 69.4%)
    06-07 Topps Platinum ( 12/307 3.9% )
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
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    Have always liked this one!!
  • BlackborderBlackborder Posts: 2,797 ✭


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    That's a cool perspective shot.
  • Ladder7Ladder7 Posts: 1,221 ✭
    Ripped this out of a pack near twenty years ago, but his Star rookie was what everyone wanted back then. Not so any longer.

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    some cards
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,617 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Ripped this out of a pack near twenty years ago, but his Star rookie was what everyone wanted back then. Not so any longer. >>



    Actually, that's not true. The Star rookie (Jordan's true rookie) still far outsells the '86 Fleer Jordan. Here's a GAI 8 that just ended for almost $1,400:

    GAI 8 Jordan Star Rookie

    If PSA still graded Star cards, or even if SCD still did, they'd be worth a lot more IMO. Just because PSA doesn't grade Jordan's 1985 Star 101 rookie, though, does not make me think any less of it. That is THE basketball card from the 80's.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Got this back in the early 90s before they started counterfeiting this particular card.

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    Lee
  • Ladder7Ladder7 Posts: 1,221 ✭


    << <i> Actually, that's not true. The Star rookie (Jordan's true rookie) still far outsells the '86 Fleer Jordan. Here's a GAI 8 that just ended for almost $1,400: >>



    I stand corrected. What was it, 'unlicensed' maybe or that it was a small company? The only card shop around didn't sell Star nor did any stores have them. NBA was huge back then and Basketball was king, so we had to settle for Fleer.
    some cards
  • CountryCountry Posts: 12


    << <i>I couldn't choose just one. There were three Michael Jordan cards in the 1984 Star regular season issue. The first was the famous #101, these are the other two which came in the Olympic/Specilas bag. I paid $600 for the bagged set in 1999, which was probably way too much at that point. Anyhow, I like 'em.

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    I actually met Mike in 1985 and got these two Star Brand cards autographed. I then met him again in 1990 and got the original of this photo autographed.
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    I have too many favorite hoop cards to list here, but I dig anything of Darnell Hillman...
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  • SlangNRoxSlangNRox Posts: 774 ✭✭
    Heres one of my favorites

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    I really like that Carmelo Topps platinum. I have the quincy douby 1/1 just like it.
  • GonblottGonblott Posts: 1,951 ✭✭
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    Don't own the actual card but like Pistol Pete's RC.
  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    One of my 3 Star Jordans. Always like this one the best.
    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • BlackborderBlackborder Posts: 2,797 ✭
    That's some 'fro on Hillman!
  • MooseDogMooseDog Posts: 1,946 ✭✭✭
    Maybe someone can help me out here with a pic. That Darnell Hillman card reminded me of my personal fave basketball card, 1972-73 ARTIS GILMORE rookie card #160 I think. I don't have the card actually. Along with Dr J and Oscar Gamble, Artis had one of the all-time great 'do's, ever. The red/white/blue basketball in his hand just makes the whole card so 1970s in a nice neat 2.5" x 3.5" package.

  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I like the 61F set and my favorite is the Baylor IA #46 - I picked it up from Rotman auctions back around 1992 for 30 bucks.

    A few years ago I needed an 6th card for my club sub. I threw this in.

    Never realized it was a 9!!!

    Most of the cards I have for the set are weak - some OC - some look OC from 3 miles away!

    Still a great set tho.

    mike

    edit: here's an example of the OC! image

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    Mike
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