Thanks Adam. The cards are nice and I actually kind of like the CSG holders . I guess the Celtic green works in this case. :D

That's for sure. How many HOFers literally were Saturday morning cartoon super heroes? Meadowlark and Curly.

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These guys had potential too but squandered it on one-fer movies and never made the cut to Saturday morning cartoons...

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Dipping my toe:

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You can now echo Geno -- "I've got Diana and you don't."

I was inspired to get this cheap but cool Meadowlark.

Speaking of the Trotters, still magical.
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Haha happy to do so too. Hoping to pick up a few more of some of the other WNBA greats.

Great pick-ups everyone! Just got these two back from SGC yesterday!

I bought maybe the top 10 or so within the past couple of years. Great cards IMO. Some of the RCs are pretty low production.

Picked up a couple more raw hall of famers. Haven't defined exactly what my basketball collecting will be, but so far it's just hof'ers from 60-80's, and maybe some early 90's.

One more for the road.

Coach Geno's first card.

Bought the Kobe raw off ebay, pulled the LaMelo from a pack. Just back from SGC!

Got a complete full set of the 1989-90 Hoops in pristine condition minus the Pistons Champions card.. usually the Jordans are gone so felt pretty good about that... and I'm a big UConn men's fan.. working on getting a full set of UConn pros.
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found this piece recently and had to have it. Never seen it before. Lots of wear on the seams. Basically, the mailer is a three-part that folds three times.

The address part with the Pollard (HOF) picture and the Cullom's Column is the outside.

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Unfold it to regular paper size and there is a great Mikan image:

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Unfold twice more and there is a three-sheet (four side) article on Mikan:

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Dates to the pre-season of the 1948-49 NBL season, the first for the Lakers in what would become the NBA, 2nd year for Mikan.

Wow that Mikan/Lakers foldout is amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Got the seller image of my two 1972 Dr J's. SGC is grading tough, thought that they both had a chance for a slightly better grade. Bought them raw on eBay, so just glad they measured up and weren't trimmed.

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Adam your post reminded me about this one that I have :

Looks familiar...

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Wilt the Stilt.

A fine example of the GOAT.

It's interesting, Wilt seems ranked too low IMO on most of those lists you see.

Here is another Warriors center who is way under-appreciated. One of only eight players with at least 3 NBA scoring titles and 3 All-NBA 1st team selections.

As I recall he retired before he reached 30, what happened there?

Knee injury. That was before the arthroscope. Warriors needed a new center so they drafted Wilt haha.

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I agree. He was the greatest offensive threat in history.

PPG 30.1 (#2 all time)

RPG 22.9 (#1 all time)

ASTPG 4.4

Career Triple-Doubles 78 (#6 all time and #1 among centers)

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Yeah, I am looking for a nice Johnston. One day a tiny percentage of these new boom collectors will want to look back.

I spent the first of the year trimming my upper 70s to bring these two grail cards into the Holy Trinity (joining Wilt). I'm dead broke but it had to be done.

Nice cards and great choices. Mikan was as dominant as any player ever was in the game. And Russell has more rings than fingers.

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Very nice to get a Dr. J without the elbow dot!

Yup! Some common print defects drive me crazy. I had a PSA 9 Shaq Topps Gold rookie with the "scratch" print defect, and it drove me crazy! I kept on looking at it.

I have been getting raw cards to eventually grade when things get cheaper. For basketball I have been getting a bunch of 1996 Topps 50th. I have a PSA 9 of this card already, but if I seem them in this type of shape, I won't pass them up. These are completely undervalued IMO, condition sensitive, lower POP than Topps Chrome versions, and will never hulk.

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Just upgraded my Alcindor rookie disaster (making something better out of my Murphy's law '69 set situation) thanks to a fellow forum member who sold me this very nice 3 for a fair price:

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I saw that card and agree that it was a great price! I’m in a similar situation with the 69-70 set and have a Kareem (or Lew) that looks like it was stuck on some kids bike spokes all summer long! Very cool and underrated set though.

Beautiful card… was working on putting together an auto run from his rookie to 89. Unfortunately, he keeps jacking up his ttm pricing making it basically uneconomical… went from charging ~$25 a few years ago to $300-$500 for his rookie and early vintage and $200 for everything else.

My original one is raw and badly creased. Nothing really disastrous, but most of the other HOFers in the set are fairly nice, so it was out of place.

Now I'm roped into upgrading the other low end cards in the set into somewhere in the grade 4-6 range. :rolleyes: About two dozen of them with Havlicek and Walt Frazier being the only big ones. The cards are so fragile that I'm surprised many survived in nice shape

Nice one, Tyler.

some kind of vintage (1960s?) card game five bucks why not?
Larry

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Thrilled to find this one for my coaches collection.

This was my biggest basketball pickup of last year. Pop 4, super tough card.

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Still my favorite Wilt Card
 

Love this centered 1969 Wilt #1... $200 less than the PSA 6.5... just sayin'

Nice Wilt. Sure looks spiffy in that black holder. It has that recurring red mark at the top left. I thought that was part of the design until I realized it wasn't. I have to get mine slabbed some day.