1986-87 Fleer Basketball Wax Box with 36 Unopened Packs as Issued by Fleer!...

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The most important issue of the past half century!

1986-87 Fleer Basketball Wax Box with 36 Unopened Packs as Issued by Fleer! While the 1980's saw a welcome surge in interest in sports card collecting, this trend resulted in a veritable tsunami of cardboard from the old guard and newcomers alike, creating a supply that drowned even that augmented demand. Today you'll find sets of Donruss, Topps and Upper Deck still in the shrink wrap, and selling for less than the thirty-year-old price tag affixed. But there was one noteworthy exception for basketball fans: the 1986 Fleer edition of 132 cards and eleven stickers.

Nearly four decades later it is an issue that stands proudly as the most coveted basketball set of the modern era. Not since the fabled "Tall Boys" of the 1969-70 Topps issue has a basketball issue boasted such a remarkable assembly of rookie talent, highlighted, of course, by the number fifty-seven card (and number eight sticker) dedicated to the iconic Michael Jordan. A short list of esteemed stars and Hall of Famers who appear in this set (many their rookie debut) include Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler, Joe Dumars, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Manute Bol, Wayman Tisdale, Chris Mullin, Hakeem Olajuwon, Isiah Thomas, Dominique Wilkins, James Worthy, Magic Johnson, Julius Erving, Larry Bird and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

The outer box exhibits a small degree of indentation from stacking pressure, and Steve Hart has confirmed that the wax packs appear in original format as issued by Fleer, with proper sticker collation of three for Bird, Dantley, English, Erving, Ewing, Johnson, Jordan and Olajuwon and four for Thomas, Wilkins and Abdul-Jabbar. Authenticated & sealed by Baseball Card Exchange (BBCE).