Vintage Graded Basketball Cards
Vintage Graded Basketball Cards
While there are millions of people who collect for fun, trading cards can also be a valuable asset and some do make money by investing in basketball cards. Graded cards are where the money is. While card companies today create the idea of scarcity by numbering them, the numbers of old basketball cards in top grade are limited […]
Unlike football and baseball, we didn’t really see a full set of hoops cardboard until 1948, had only one set in the 50s and nothing again until the late 1960s. It’s a relatively new collecting genre and while identifying the best old basketball cards to buy is a little subjective, there are some cards that […]
It’s a study in contrast. While it gave us Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan rookie cards (as well as other members of the famous 1992 Dream Team), it was also a near wasteland for mainstream issues. A list of the top 10 basketball rookie cards of the 1980s relies primarily on just a […]
The 1969-70 New York Knicks team holds a special place in the memory banks of fans who grew up in the era. Red Holzman’s guys were the first New York “winter” team to win a championship since 1940 and there were a raft of books written both immediately after that year as well as in […]
One that is overlooked by collectors, the 1979-80 Topps basketball set is affordable and has plenty of cards of Hall of Famers. At just 132 cards and with a rather uninspiring design, it’s not one of Topps’ best efforts, but there’s no denying the quality of the players. The front of the card uses a basketball with […]
Card collectors had plenty of big name rookie cards in earlier basketball sets but starting with the 1973-74 Topps basketball set, the impact rookies didn’t appear as frequently for the remainder of the decade. Bob McAdoo and Paul Westphal could score, Fred Brown and Chris Ford could shoot from range, Kevin Porter could pass the […]
It was one set with players from two professional basketball leagues. The 1971-72 Topps set consisted of 233 cards, with NBA players up to card #144 and the rest were from the ABA, the American Basketball Association. It was the first time Topps had included the ABA in its set and being in those packs […]