The Highland Mint is celebrating the 49ers' 1997 Western Division title with 2,500 silver medallions (suggested retails price: $25 each) and 500 gold-plated-on-silver medallions ($65). A specially-commissioned portrait of 21-game-winner Clemens, painted by artist Eric Cash, is on the cover of the December Beckett Baseball Card Monthly.

Toronto pitcher Roger Clemens has been named Beckett Publications' first Man of the Year. Tuff Stuff readers have voted Topps Finest Football as the 1997 card set of the year, with the Bowman Baseball Jose Cruz Jr. Just for the record, the sets that seem to be in the most question are Star's 1984-85 Olympic Michael Jordan set 1984-85 Olympic 10-card set 1986 Miller Lite set 1986 Crunch 'n' Munch set 1985 Last 11 Rookies of the Year (white with red lettering) 19 Chicago Bulls Arena sets 1984-85 Court Kings (small version) and 1984-85 All-Rookies (blue border). No one has millions of dollars worth of vintage, mint, never-before-offered-for-sale cards lying around, taking up warehouse space.' 'The bottom line,' Schwartz said, 'is that nothing is free in this world. Schwartz said - in answer to numerous questions - that he doesn't expect the counterfeit cards ever to have any value, or will find as niche in the market even after the lawsuits shake out. In the latest Tuff Stuff magazine, columnist T.J. The matter is now in the courts, with middle men also being sued, and Shop at Home is refunding money to people who bought the sets in question. The NBA gathered what it said was proof that the cards were not what they were billed to be, and got preliminary injunctions to halt their sale. 'Collectors paid premium prices for basketball trading cards they mistakenly believed to be collectors' items,' a league press release said. The NBA's claim was that while the cards carried mid-1980s dates, they actually were newly-made, not simply discovered through luck by Levin. It's been reported that the sets were bringing in as much as $250,000 a night for Shop at Home.īut then NBA Properties, the league's marketing arm, sued Levin for allegedly producing, distributing and selling counterfeit cards.

'find' - 9,000 bagged sets of Star cards, most of them containing expensive Jordans - which were sold on the Shop at Home network and two other TV shopping shows.Īnd sold is the word. Several months ago, Levin supposedly came up with a But their value, regardless of packaging, is in serious question now. The sets originally came in sealed polybags, which - oddly - is the way they have the most value now. Various smaller Star issues also appreciated greatly.

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