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I have a huge collection. Picked collecting back up since last doing it in early 70s with my sons 20 years ago. Two of my coolest things...an Abe Lincoln auto and a framed Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner dual auto card.


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This will kind of give you a feel for what I am dealing with.
What;s interesting is when you bought a pack it was always the same 1-11, 12-23, etc. cards sets plus a sticker.
Always alphabetical. The only random in that was the sticker you got. So on my way to building the set I ended up with 2, 3, 4 of the same cards for a lot of players. Hence why I have the 3 Jordans.

When I went to high school I brought it in to show some friends and they freeked out. This was like 1991. Told me to put that set away and that it was "worth a lot".
Well here we are now and I'm sitting on a treasure.
12 year old ElGuapo did well on that one in harrassing my poor mom to keep buying cards for him at XTRA-MART and Cumberland Farms in Plainville. It was so under the radar of a set at the time no one was gobbling them up.
Wish I could say the same about all of the baseball cards I have from the time.

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Besides the trove of UConn stuff I have a cocktail napkin signed by John Havlicek. Met him at a bar after a charity softball game on the Cape circa 1980. Really nice regular guy. The other side is signed by Henry Finkel.
 
And then on the UConn side there this this old gem.
Husky Hoops the board game.

My High School Marketing teacher, Steve Slomski, was an avid fan and did the research to create this game.
Crazy thing is it was only early history through the 1992(?) season right up until the success tidal wave hit.

He did well at the time selling them but had stacks of them in his basement so he gave them to us students as gifts. I was a newer fan at the time so that was cool.

The image below is not mine though. I'd have to go to my mother's house to liberate it.

Anyone else have one?

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ElGuapo said:
I have 3 Michael Jordan rookie cards.
One of them goes in the complete set. I also have a complete set of the stickers.
All of these too and tons of extras from the whole 86/87 set.
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Top 10 Most Valuable 1986-87 Fleer Basketball Cards

Ranking of the 10 most valuable 1986-87 Fleer Basketball cards. The set includes Rookie Cards of Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone and more.
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I have the same - plus many older football, hockey snd baseball cards. Every UConn poster from about 1988. Multiple copies of all the UConn card sets handed out at games. Ticket stubs from the 60's for Mets, FB and Hockey programs and yearbooks from the 60's, a lot of autographed UConn stuff - and much more.
 
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I wasn't even thinking of all the non-signed stuff. My Mom framed the cover page from the Courant's special section about the 89-90 team. Johnny Gwinn cutting the nets
 

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I bought the UConn / Notre Dame program in the pre-game parking lot for $10 with a sweet poster folded into the centerfold.
Got that framed up right away and have an awesome souvenir from an awesome game and crazy ass night in downtown South Bend afterwards!
Oh man what a night that was...

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Also this poster from early 90's after they opened Gampel.
My aforementioned HS marketing teacher grabbed a bunch at a game and ran it through the laminator in the school library and gave me one.
It's ragtag after almost 30 years but it still lives...

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