The second and last tall-boy set. The checklist grew to 175 cards, adding league-leader and playoff subsets. Pete Maravich’s rookie (#123) is the key card, and Calvin Murphy and Pat Riley also have rookies here. Lew Alcindor appears in his second-year card. Topps went back to standard card size the following year, so the two…
Topps’ return to basketball after twelve years. The cards are oversized “tall boys” measuring about 2-1/2″ x 4-11/16″, a format used only in 1969-70 and 1970-71. With the gap since 1961 Fleer, the 99-card set is heavy on rookies: Lew Alcindor (#25) is the key card, and John Havlicek, Walt Frazier, Wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes,…
Fleer’s only basketball set of the era, and the only major release between 1957-58 Topps and 1969-70 Topps. The 66-card checklist includes rookie cards of Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and Elgin Baylor — one of the strongest rookie classes in any basketball set. The last portion of the set is “In Action” cards,…
Topps’ first basketball set, and the first major basketball release since 1948 Bowman. Because of that nine-year gap, most of the NBA appears here in rookie form: Bill Russell (#77), Bob Cousy, Bob Pettit, Dolph Schayes, and Paul Arizin all have their first cards in this 80-card set. Russell’s rookie is the key card and…
The 1948 Bowman Basketball set is the first major basketball-only card isse. The set contains 72 cards released in two series, with the second series (#37–72) printed in shorter supply and notably scarcer today. Card fronts feature color player portraits in Bowman’s small early format, while backs carry player biographies — with a subset of…
The set when Fleer embraced the junk wax era production numbers. The MJ is one of the more iconic images and one of the hobbies most graded cards – nearly 70,000 times with over 8,000 PSA 10s in the pop report. Shawn Kemp and Tim Hardaway were popular rookies at the set’s release.