{"id":26664,"date":"2020-08-07T13:28:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T18:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26664"},"modified":"2020-08-07T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T14:35:54","slug":"the-apocryphoral-prediction-comes-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/07\/the-apocryphoral-prediction-comes-true\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apocryphoral Prediction Comes True"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/sports\/1986-87-fleer-basketball-card-michael-jordan-rookie-sells\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1986-87 Fleer Basketball Cards case containing Michael Jordan rookie sells for more than $1.7M<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An unopened case of 1986-87 Fleer Basketball Cards sold for more than $1.78 million in an auction conducted by Collect Auctions on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The auction house described the box as \u201cthe Holy Grail of all modern items\u201d and possibly the last one left in the sports-card collecting hobby. The case includes 12 wax boxes with 36 packs to a box.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I have many of my childhood collections, and I have always maintained that one cannot get rich from the things from one&#8217;s childhood.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of this incident, I&#8217;m going to hold to it.  Because an unopened box likely came from a speculator or the remnants of an out-of-business collector shop somewhere.  <em>Not<\/em> from someone&#8217;s childhood.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/sbj.net\/stories\/case-of-basketball-cards-sells-for-18m,70157\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Springfield Business Journal<\/a><\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1986-87 Fleer Basketball Cards case containing Michael Jordan rookie sells for more than $1.7M: An unopened case of 1986-87 Fleer Basketball Cards sold for more than $1.78 million in an auction conducted by Collect Auctions on Thursday night. The auction house described the box as \u201cthe Holy Grail of all modern items\u201d and possibly the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26666,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26664\/revisions\/26666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}