We all have some - check them carefully.
Early 90's basketball that is. Most sports card collectors that have bought collections or random bulk boxes without a doubt have some early Skybox, Hoops, Ultra, etc. basketball cards. Are you a collector of these or do they languish in boxes in the closet, garage, or basement. I hope no one stores their cards in the attic. This post is certainly not meant to offend basketball card collectors - cause that's not what we do here. And I mean no disrespect to the cards themselves. Look at the first Skybox set from 90-91. Beautiful cards, but as someone recently wrote, "about as common as a blade of grass". I recently ended up with a day to myself, and the weather was crap, so I grabbed a four-row box of what I knew was basketball cards and dug in. I was hoping to finish a couple of long-lingering sets from the era, and maybe find a few gems. It turns out that this was a decent box. The empty space shows how many cards were "keepers". The bottom three finish ...