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Sports Collectors Digest|July 3, 2020

Backboard sells for $18K, but it’s not just any backboard

For more than 20 years, a pair of backboards formed a basketball court outside a home in a Cleveland suburb. Nothing unusual about that. Plenty of owners of large properties have created basketball courts outside their homes. But these baskets are different. These baskets are unique, historic even. They are the baskets that sat at either end of the court in the Richfield Coliseum, home to the Cleveland Cavaliers. That alone isn’t what makes them special. What does is that one of the baskets is The Hoop that The Shot was made in on May 7, 1989. “The Shot,” of course, is the one made by Michael Jordan in an Eastern Conference showdown with the Cavaliers, a buzzer-beater over Craig Ehlo that sent the Chicago Bulls to their first NBA…

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Sports Collectors Digest|July 3, 2020

Top Ten Online Auctions

1. $168,700 on 99 bids: 2003-04 Upper Deck Exquisite Collection LeBron James Number Pieces, #16/23, auto patch (BGS 9) 2. $72,100 on 48 bids: 1986-87 Fleer Basketball sealed wax box (BBCE authenticated) 3. $71,400 on 138 bids: 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan (PSA 10) 4. $70,101 on 116 bids: 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan (PSA 10) 5. $65,600 on 99 bids: 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan (PSA 10) 6. $57,099 on 23 bids: 2009-10 Bowman Chrome Mike Trout Refractor, #/500, auto (BGS 10) 7. $51,037 on 33 bids: 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan (PSA 10) 8. $50,600 on 36 bids: 1966-67 Topps USA Test Bobby Orr (PSA 8.5) 9. $42,000 on 55 bids: 2003-04 Topps Chrome LeBron James Refractor (PSA 10) T10. $40,200 on 45 bids: 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan (BGS 9.5) T10. $40,200…

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Sports Collectors Digest|July 3, 2020

Careers of Orr and Shore draw parallels

The hockey card on the auction block described the pictured player this way: “...Great ability for fast breaking, checking and rushing earned him chances to travel with bigger teams until he landed with the Boston Bruins...He has been the game’s greatest defensive star on all-hockey teams many tines...Is one of the highest scoring defense players in the game and always gives a thrill when he starts one of his famous ‘rushes’ down the ice. Is one of the highest paid stars in hockey but is very modest and quiet in person.” So, who was the player pictured on that card? Another of that player’s cards offers a few more hints: “... One of hockey’s outstanding and famous defense players, and always a big threat on the attack with Boston...” If…

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Sports Collectors Digest|July 3, 2020

Show Calendar

ALABAMA Aug 15 AL, Scottsboro. Scottsboro Sports Cards & Memorabilia Show, Goose Pond Civic Center, 1165 Ed Hembree Dr., Scottsboro, AL, 35769. SH: 9am-2pm, T: 60+, A: free. Contact: Stephen Moore @ 256-599-0989 or stephen@jacksonssportscards.com CONNECTICUT June 14 CT, Orange. Orange Collectible Show, American Legion Post 127, 630 Grassy Hill Road, Orange, CT 06471. SH: 9am-2pm, T: 30+, A: $1. Contact: Karen or Fred Riso – PH: 203-265-1813, Email: kmrfdr@gmail.com June 20 CT, Plainville. Plainville Sports-card Show, VFW Hall, 7 Northwest Dr., Plainville, CT, 06062. SH: 9am-2pm, T: 45, A: $1. Contact Cliff Gorneault 860-302-0493, clfgorneault@yahoo.com June 27 CT, Trumbull. Trumbull Cards Show, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1734 Huntington Turnpike, Trumbull, CT 06611. SH: 9am-2pm, T: 20+, A: $1. Contact: Karen or Fred Riso – PH: 203-265-1813, Email: kmrfdr@gmail.com June 28…

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Sports Collectors Digest|July 3, 2020

Who will be the next Mike Trout or Ronald Acuna Jr.?

Wander Franco, Gavin Lux, Luis Robert and Adley Rutschman. Those are just a few guys that have become almost household names to baseball card collectors. Yet, they have barely begun making their mark as professional baseball players. This year’s top MLB prospects are impressive (Note: we're assuming we'll have a season). Prospectors who are searching to find the next Mike Trout or Ronald Acuna Jr. have plenty of young, talented players to choose from. It’s another deep class. “I just think the talent gets better, the eye for talent gets better,” said Lance Fischer, who is the president of Onyx Authenticated, Inc. “The teams are doing more due diligence when it comes to identifying who they think is going to make their team better or the investment that they put…

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Sports Collectors Digest|July 3, 2020

Feedback

Joe DiMaggio autograph falls into hands of collector for free I enjoyed reading your article about the Pete Rose FBI disc (“Finding the Holy Grail of Pete Rose Collectibles,” June 5 issue of SCD). I was jealous because I am a Reggie Jackson collector and would have loved that disc. My story goes like this: I have been a card collector since I was a kid in the 1970s. After I got my first real job, I was all-in to go to sports card auctions in my area. Each week for about a year, a local sports card shop would hold auctions. A small crowd of about a dozen would buy everything in the auction. We all squeezed into a 50-foot by 100-foot store to drink beers and buy sports…

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Sports Collectors Digest|July 3, 2020

Topps Pro Debut Baseball highlights up-and-comers

2020 TOPPS PRO DEBUT BASEBALL The future stars of baseball are highlighted in the 2020 Topps Pro Debut Baseball set, featuring the talent pipeline of Minor League Baseball. Elsewhere in this issue of SCD is a story about who might be the next Mike Trout or Ronald Acuna Jr. Whomever it is might be found in this set of 200 base cards and parallels. The standard Hobby box offers the same two autographs and two relics as in previous sets, but debuting is the HTA Jumbo Hobby box with three autographs. Base cards include parallels numbered to 150 (Blue Parallel), to 99 (Green), to 50 (Gold) to 25 (Orange), to 10 (Red), and 1-of-1 (Black), along with Base Set Image Variations (1-of-1). New inserts include cards highlighting the Copa de…

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Sports Collectors Digest|July 3, 2020

Second Canadian gets ‘call from the Hall’

Editor’s Note: The COVID-19 pandemic forced the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., to postpone the 2020 Hall of Fame induction ceremonies—originally slated for this summer—until July 25, 2021. Sports Collectors Digest will honor the 2020 Hall of Fame class this summer with a series of articles about these baseball legends who sat down earlier this year and talked about their careers. In this issue, Larry Walker. Coming next: Derek Jeter. How does a kid who was born in the westernmost province of Canada, grew up collecting hockey trading cards and set his sights on being a goalie in the National Hockey League end up in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown? It’s a long story, one you might recount by the fireplace on a cold, wintry…

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Sports Collectors Digest|July 3, 2020

Willie Stargell and Willie Horton 1970 cards deemed perfect

THE WILLIES — Topps’ 1971 baseball set is known for being nearly impossible to find in perfect-10 condition. It’s a little easier to find 10-grade cards from the previous year, 1970—yet they’re not exactly plentiful. Kids of that era didn’t rush home and file newly bought cards into protective binders. We played with them, carrying them around and flipping and trading to our hearts’ content. It’s impossible to keep cards in Mint condition when you’re carrying them around in your back pocket. As such, 10-graded cards from 1970 draw a premium, just as pristine 1971 cards do. Consider recent auctions of two Gem-Mint 1970 cards, both of them featuring Willies known for giving fits to opposing pitchers—Stargell and Horton. The eBay seller, Probstein 123, had broken up a high-grade 1970…

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Sports Collectors Digest|July 3, 2020

NEW CARD Release Calendar

JUNE 17: 2019-20 SP Hockey 17: 2020 Topps Museum Collection Baseball 17: 2020 Panini Prizm Baseball 17: 2019-20 Upper Deck Ice Hockey 19: 2020 Topps Big League Baseball 19: 2020 Topps Pro Debut Baseball 19: 2019 Leaf Valiant Baseball 24: 2020 Panini Chronicles Draft Picks Football 24: 2019-20 Panini Impeccable Premier League Soccer 24: 2020 Topps Clearly Authentic Baseball 26: 2020 Panini Legacy Football 26: 2019-20 Panini Spectra Basketball 26: 2020 Topps Series 2 Baseball 26: 2020 Topps Baseball Silver Pack 1985 Chrome Cards 26: 2020 Leaf Greatest Hits Multi-Sport Edition 26: 2020 Leaf Valiant Football 30: 2019-20 Upper Deck Engrained Hockey JULY 1: 2020 Topps Baseball Complete Factory Set 1: 2019-20 Topps Finest UEFA Champions League Soccer 1: 2020 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions 3: 2019-20 Panini Chronicles Basketball 8:…

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Sports Collectors Digest|July 3, 2020

Card collector keeps an eye out for…himself

Baseball card collectors should remember this name: Daniel Tillo. One reason is because he’s a Top 20 prospect in the Kansas City Royals organization. The 24-year-old pitcher is hoping to crack the big leagues this season, assuming there is one. Another reason to remember his name is if a collector pulls one of his 2017 Bowman Chrome Draft or 2017 Bowman Draft colored parallels, Tillo might be in interested in purchasing the card. Since signing with the Royals after being selected in the third round in the 2017 MLB Draft, Tillo has gotten back into collecting baseball, football and basketball cards just like during his childhood. But he added a different wrinkle to his collection: attempt to complete the rainbows of cards of himself in the two Bowman Draft products…

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Sports Collectors Digest|July 3, 2020

2019 World Series champs celebrated in new bio-illustration book

If you’re missing baseball due to the COVID-forced shut-down of MLB, artist/writer Ronnie Joyner has something to tie you over until the eventual opening of the 2020 season. Joyner, whose baseball bio-illustrations appear regularly in the pages of Sports Collectors Digest, has written and illustrated a book of bio-illustrations commemorating the 2019 World Series champions. “World Series Champions: 2019 Washington Nationals — And Now We Dance!” is a full-color, 48-page booklet all about the 2019 Nats. It features 20 player bio-illustrations by Joyner and an introduction/ season-recap written by long-time Nats postgame radio host Phil Wood. Joyner was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in the Maryland suburbs of the nation’s capital. A Senators fan until the franchise moved to Texas when he was just 9 years old, Joyner…

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