fleer 1986-87 basketball cards

The love for basketball is a life long passion of mine.I started playing the sport in 1971 at the age of 11 now that I'm older I collect fleer cards.In my younger days I would play morning,noon and nite.I was almost six feet tall when I began learning to play basketball playing center for my local team my idol quite naturally was Lew Alcindor and his patinent shot the sky-hook was the first shot that I would learn .Mastering the hook shot took hours of practice I put in the work and got it down pretty good those where great memories as I think back .

I'm almost fifty now and haven't played the sport of my youth for years so to compensate my thrist for this fabulous game I've developed a hobby of collecting basketball cards of my favorite NBA stars.Fleer 1986-87 basketball cards to be exact.Basketball cards where no big item until Michael Jordan arrived on the scene and coincidently fleer decided to return to creating NBA cards fleer had good intuition because some of these cards are worth thousands now and many a basketball collector now try to assemble complete sets of common cards and the stickers.

Fleer's return to the basketball card industry after a 25-year hiatus.This 132-card standard-size marks what is considered to be the beginning of the modern era of basketball cards. The cards were issued in 12-card wax packs (11 cards plus a sticker) that retailed for 50 cents. Wax boxes consisted of 36 packs. A stick of gum was also included in each pack. The set is checklisted alphabetically by the player's last name. Since only the Star Company had been issuing basketball cards nationally since 1983, most of the players in this Fleer set already had cards which are considered Extended Rookie Cards. However, since this Fleer set was the first nationally distributed through wax packs since the 1981-82 Topps issue, most of the players in the set are considered Rookie Cards including Michael Jordan. Other Rookie Cards, of those that had Star Company cards include Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, Isiah Thomas and Dominique Wilkins. Rookie Cards of those that did not previously appear in a set include Joe Dumars, Karl Malone, Chris Mullin and Charles Oakley. Red, white and blue borders surround a color photo that contains a Fleer "Premier" logo in an upper corner. The card backs are printed in red and blue on white card stock. Several cards have "Traded" notations on them if the player was traded subsequent to the photo selection process. It's important to note that some of the more expensive cards in this set (especially Michael Jordan) have been counterfeited in the past few years. Checking key detailed printing areas such as the "Fleer Premier" logo on the front and the players' association logo on the back under eight or ten power magnification usually detects the legitimate from the counterfeits. The cards are condition sensitive due to dark borders and centering problems.