Jordan Cards Blog: Unusual cards

Tim has owned one of the rarest Michael Jordan cards around for 30 years since pulling it himself in 1994.

Produced by the Bulls before Michael Jordan took to the court in the NBA, these Pocket Schedules represent nice - and affordable - rookie season pieces.

From vintage stickers with roots in World Cup soccer to accusations of deliberate inclusion of Jordan cameos - Panini Jordan cards are an interesting journey.

Monster 1/1 buy back auto Jordan found by collector who unknowingly had it tucked away for almost 15 years.

Any Jordan cards collection can include interesting pieces unlike any other athlete thanks to Jordan's time in baseball and subsequent NBA comeback.

Some serious spycraft was used to lead to the fact that there are a number of basketball cards featuring Jordan wearing the number 12 jersey.

David owns an almost complete Jordan shadow cards collection and was kind enough to share it and his collecting journey with us.

A closer look at the 94-95 Finest Jordan wearing #23 jersey and how an MLB strike contributed to its existence.

This common subset leads us on a look at why it can be fun to take a look at the background of your cards.

A look at an advertisement from 1994 which may be the original source of the 1993-94 Beam Team Members Only Gold Stamp cards.

There is a little known Star Co release limited to only 250 sets featuring Michael Jordan as the Bulls began their journey to the first three-peat.

Sometimes known as cameo cards, Jordan shadow cards feature a photo where MJ can be seen in the background - fun to collect and mostly readily available to buy online.

A very interesting Michael Jordan Collector's Choice Gold Signature has shown up for sale on eBay - this card is graded by BGS but something is different.

A Michael Jordan Finest card showing Jordan wearing number 23 instead of number 45 has shown up for sale - 7 months after a previous PSA authenticated copy.

A set of the ultra rare 1993-94 Gold Stamp Members Only Beam Team cards is up for sale. Prior to this auction I'd only seen 2 of the cards myself.

A BGS 9.5 Michael Jordan Beam Team Members Only Gold Stamp error card shows up along with the Patrick Ewing version.

A very rare and unique second variation error 93-94 Michael Jordan Members Only Beam Team has shown up for sale on eBay - and sold for 10 times the average sale price of Jordan 93-94 Beam Teams!

An unusual pack pulled 1996-97 SP 16 card stumped not only me but also several other collectors and resulted in varying information from Beckett and Upper Deck.

Chip Leakas of Newport, RI received a 1991 Michael Jordan Hoops Metal Prototype directly from the manufacturer.

Huge Michael Jordan cards collector Lou Costabile shares some very rare and unusual Michael Jordan cards which you may not have seen before. He also gives us an insight into the great stories behind the cards.

Every now and then a Jordan card from the 1989-90 Hoops set with a yellow background will appear only the normal set has a white background.