Illustration: Jeffrey Kurtz To our 15-year-old readers: there once was a faraway place called the 1990s. It ruled. Those wonderful years also birthed Skybox basketball cards, which were so acid ...

In the early 90s we witnessed the rise of unique inserts that began captivating collectors and enhancing the collectability ...

Michael Jordan will always have a place atop the basketball card collecting hobby. ... the 1993-94 SkyBox Premium Center Stage inserts don't have the same razzle dazzle as some of their 1990s ...

With that in mind, we've selected 10 basketball cards that every 1990s kid should own to help serve as a snapshot of the decade. ... along with his 1990-91 Hoops and 1990-91 SkyBox cards.

The card, however, is not the highest-selling basketball card ever, an award that belongs to a 1969 Lew Alcindor rookie card by Topps, which was sold for $501,900 through Heritage Auction.

But that might change soon, as another Griffey card from the same year has a pre-sale estimate of $200,000 at Heritage Auctions.. This example, a 1998 SkyBox E-X 2001 Essential Credentials Now ...

Trying to recapture the profit magic of the trading-card business, Marvel Entertainment Group Inc. said Thursday it will buy Skybox International Inc. for about $150 million. The purchase by Marvel… ...

Let’s begin with Stockton’s 1988-89 Fleer Basketball Card (No. 115) which, as far as the hobby is concerned, is considered his true rookie card, and debuted just as he was claiming his first ...

The basketball card hobby exploded in popularity in the 1990s, ... Skybox’s E — X cards are some of the most revered of the ’90s and Bryant’s #30 base card in the 1996 set is an example of ...