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Conference school::sports_memorabilia

Title:	Sports Memorabilia
Notice:	Wanted: 3.; For_sale: 4.; Traded: 5.*
Moderator:	SCHOOL::KOPACKO

Created:	Wed Aug 27 1986
Last Modified:	Thu May 08 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	730
Total number of notes:	8547

494.0. "92-93 basketball news" by DTIF::MCEVOY () Fri Oct 16 1992 14:16

    The latest Beckett has a sumary of all the expected Basketball
    releases for 92-93. As Expected, Topps (normal & stadium), and
    Fleer Ultra are the new players. I wasn't sure if SkyBox would
    be back since they are more tightly coupled with Hoops, but they
    are, the cards look much nicer than previous years (my opinion
    anyway). They're borderless, and they feature real pictures instead
    of the cumputer generated stuff. Stadium are supposed to be out in
    early November, two series of 200 cards each, design similar to 
    92 Baseball. Topps will also have 2 series, totalling 396, same
    design as 92 baseball and football (why does topps do this? it
    really makes all of the cards seem bland when they all look the
    same!) Ultra are due out in late October. The Skybox cards will 
    feature a 12 card insert set of the Olympic team. Upper Deck is
    supposed to do away with factory sets (!), and cut production by 40%.
    Wilt is the hero.
    
    -dennis

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
494.1		FUTURE::JST_ONGE	John St.Onge USDSL DTN 275-2715	`Sat Oct 17 1992 11:11`	5
	Re: .0 Ditto on the new SkyBox cards - they look pretty nice. John
494.2		EBBV03::MONDALTO		`Sat Oct 17 1992 13:37`	9
	I just picked up some 92-93 Fleer,as usual they have a border,and I don't think that I have one that is centered. When I was done opening the box I had 57 damaged (bent corners) cards. Out of all the cards that I buy,it seems that Fleer are always the one that are damaged, they must have a bunch of gorillas working for them,well there goes another $3.00 for the post office,it seems that they are the only ones making money,do any of you feel the same way about Fleer . John M.
494.3	Topps Basketball	MARLIN::MATOS		`Mon Nov 30 1992 12:06`	14
	I picked up a couple of the TOPPS Basketball cards, they look like the Baseball cards with a Gold card in every pack. The dealer I go to in Worcester is getting .75 a pack or 3 packs for $2. Series I runs to 198 cards with 197 & 198 being the check list. I called ROTmans to get there price and they are all sold out and the person on the phone wasn't sure if they were getting anymore. I think I found an error in one of my packs, I got a GOLD Card of Jeff Sanders #197. Number 197 is suppose to be the check list and Jeff Sanders is not even listed on any of the check list. If anyone knows anything about this error let me know. Thanks Miguel
494.4		CARTUN::PAVLOCK		`Mon Nov 30 1992 22:26`	5
	My local dealer had both the regular Topps at .75.pack and the jumbos in stock. I think the jumbos we $2/3 packs. Regards, Denny
494.5		FUTURE::JST_ONGE	John St.Onge USDSL DTN 275-2715	`Tue Dec 01 1992 06:11`	6
	Re: .3 Miguel, I think for the gold cards they dropped the checklists and re- place them with draft picks. I believe they did this for baseball. John
494.6		AWECIM::MCAULIFFE		`Tue Dec 01 1992 12:03`	15
	>> My local dealer had both the regular Topps at .75.pack and the >> jumbos in stock. I think the jumbos we $2/3 packs. I saw the Jumbos for sale last night at Shaw's... They have a suggested retail price of $1.99... The good thing is their are five gold cards per jumbo pack, vs only three in football jumbos. IMO, the basketball are nice; the fronts are same ole '92 Topps but the backs are more colorful, with another small picture located on the top right hand corner. Also, seems like the backs have the same finish as the fronts... dan
494.7		ROYALT::ASHE	What people do... for money...	`Tue Dec 01 1992 13:38`	3
	Apparently, there's Also a gold card subset in the UD basketball set as well...
494.8	anybody have this card out there?	DDIF::MCEVOY		`Mon Dec 21 1992 08:29`	8
	The January Becketts is out. The 1984-85 Star Michael Jordan (XRC) card is now the most valuable card in the book, up 300$ to 3200$ surpassing the 1948 Bowman George Mikan which held at 3000$. I'm sure glad I picked 1983-88 to stop collecting cards...got my paper and I was free.