Sean Storms, a collector with more money then sense, just spent $200,000 on a graded “perfect” Michael Jordan 1986-87 Fleer Card. The card is considered Jordan’s “rookie” card, even though his rookie season in the NBA was 1985-86.
Beckett, publisher of the most popular sports card price guide and the company that graded the card, published the story on their website about the card’s sale to Sean Storms. They claim in the article that the card is perfect, yet if you look the actual ratings of the card, it’s not really perfect. If it was perfect, it would rate solid 10’s in every category. This card doesn’t have solid 10’s. Beckett rated the card’s surface as a 9.5 out of 10. If it was in fact perfect, they would have assigned a perfect 10 to not only the Centering, Edges, and Corners, but the to the Surface too.
This card isn’t perfect.
If you want to impress me, show me a graded 1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan with solid 10’s. You do that and I just might just start bowing like Obama in Japan.
One of my favorite basketball cards comes from the same set. It’s a 1986-87 Fleer Kurt Rambis card, number 89 in the set. It, like the Jordan card, is considered the Rambis rookie card. I was able to pick it up for fifty cents at a card show at the Ruritan in Mauginsvile, Maryland. It was quite a score because the card usually goes for around $2. I handed the gentleman selling the card a one dollar bill and not only did I get a mint Rambis rookie card, I got two shinny quarters as well.
It was a wonderful day.
