Collectibles Show Finds Part III - 1991-1992 Hoops Basketball Series II

By far my favorite box of cards I picked up at the show were the 1991-1992 Hoops basketball.  Again for $5 I received 36 packs of 15 cards each for a total of 540.  Nice design and great subsets.  Supreme Court cards were stars that might not normally be found in a series two set.  There were art cards for each team which I really liked as well as draft pick cards, all-time leader cards and cards detailing the Finals series between Chicago and Los Angeles.  My favorite by far though is the USA Basketball subset.  I had recently read, and reviewed, Jack McCullum's Dream Team book so this was great timing.  All of the 1992 Dream Team and coaches were in the set.  There were also players from past Olympic teams who were currently in the NBA.  Again a great box and loads of fun.         

 

Collectible Show Finds Part II - 1990-1991 Hoops

More great cards.  540 total from a wax card box.  This set had a little more variety with the rookie cards and gold bordered All-Star game cards.  I really like the latter cards in sets especially with photos from the games themselves which is what we have here.  Not a flashy set but it works.  The backs had decent stats and write-ups.  The photos were very good as well.  More great fun for me. 

Rick Mahorn leaves the Detroit Pistons and all of a sudden he and Larry Bird are smiling buds?



Collectibles Show Finds Part I - 1990-1991 SkyBox Basketball Series II

The Larry Bird show!

Want to show off some of the cards I picked up last month at the card show.  For $5 I picked up a box of 1990-1991 Skybox series two basketball cards.  A nice looking set I've always liked but the lack of subsets is a little disappointing.  But to their defense that wasn't the big thing at that time.  There were 36 packs with 15 cards per pack for a total of 540 cards.  It was great fun opening all those packs and the price was right. 

The backs of these cards lacked many stats which is also somewhat of a negative.  Still there is something I like about the fronts and loved going down memory lane. 

Westport Sports Collectible and Autograph Convention - February, 2015

I headed over to the latest sports show in St. Louis last weekend with my buddy.  Great show as always.  I was able to pick up six boxes of cards for $5 each.  I won't send any kids through college with these cards but that isn't the point.  It is all about the fun and six boxes at that price is great.  I enjoyed the heck out of opening all those packs.  It brings back memories and opening packs is a favorite part of the hobby for me.  I'll post more on each of the goodies I was able to score but my favorite box was the 1991-1992 Hoops series II.  I didn't have a ton of these cards before now and having just read the book on the '92 Dream Team I was excited to see the Dream Team inserts.  I'll definitely keep that sub set.

I also grabbed the hardback book Unfinished Business by Jack McCallum which chronicles the 1990-1991 season of the Boston Celtics.  I had just tried finding this on Amazon the week prior and couldn't do it so getting this for only $5 was nice.  I also grabbed some single "wax packs" as well as got to rummage through some quarter bins grabbing quite a few singles, the majority of which were NBA cards from the 70's.  Another great show by the After the Game Inc. guys.  They did have a few of their signers that cancelled on them and weather probably put a dent in the Sunday portion of the show but it was still fun.  My buddy and I look forward to their next show in October which looks to have a little more variety to include Jose Canseco and Ric Flair.   More information can be found on their Facebook page.