Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction November 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2024
Featuring a total of 264 different individual players on a total of 176 different panels that featured three (3) cards each, the 1980-81 Topps Basketball release features the key rookie examples of both Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, with both being featured on a three (3) card panel along with fellow legend and Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, Julius Erving. Offered here, we present this near-complete set of Topps' 1980-81 basketball release. Including a total of 129 out of the 176 panels featuring three (3) cards each for a full "panel" set, within those 129 included panels are 253 of the 264 cards needed in the set. Missing only eleven (11) cards from being a complete set, the set being offered is void of #'s 52, 114, 143, 172, 174, 181, 189, 191, 218, 222 and 257. Found to be in the overall high-grade condition state of EX-MT to NM throughout its entirety, the group includes the key cards of 18-Johnson AS (x2 - EX-MT to NM), 30-Bird SL (EX-MT to NM), 31-Bird RC (x2 - both EX-MT to NM) and 139-Johnson RC (EX-MT to NM). With the rest of the star players also in a condition matching the rest of the set, it is also worth noting that included there are forty-five (45) duplicate panels of three (3) cards. Finally, also included with the set are two (2) cards that have been recently been graded by PSA including the panel of Bird/Cartwright/Drew and Bird/Erving/Johnson, both of which have earned marks of NM 7 for their efforts.
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