Mickey, the greatest witch hitter in history and the fastest man in baseball at getting down the line to first base, was a tremendous talent all-around ball player. During the 50s, Mickey won the AL MVP Award two seasons in a row 1956 and 1957.

Then & Now

I was putting a boxed set of early 1990’s Space Shots cards in a binder recently, and I got to the last card and found a hologram! I had no idea it was part of the set. Since it was numbered “HOLOGRAM 1”, I went looking to see if there were other hologram cards in the set. Turns out it’s just this one, but…

there were 1000 randomly inserted hologram cards autographed by Jim Lovell! Naturally, had to go find myself one, and here it is! Lovell was on the Apollo 13 mission, but he had also flown on Apollo 8, where the famous “Earthrise” picture was taken and the hologram of that is the front of this card.

While these upper deck, Michael Jordan hologram cards were not rare… They are exceedingly difficult to find in high grade. They’re on thin card stock and the surface of the shiny hologram scratches very, very easily. I was able to pick this one up in a CGC gem mint grade without breaking the bank. In the natural sunlight, they sparkle, and you can get the true colors of The uniform and background at the right angle. Upper deck introduced holograms into cards and went crazy with them for a few years. They are a blast back to that era of collecting and are still really cool pieces that are increasing in price slowly as people realize how hard they are to find high grade.

Bringing back UD style holograms would be a great rare insert chase in a world of overproduced mparallels.

1996 SP SPx Force Michael Jordan, Penny Hardaway, Shawn Kemp, Damon Stoudamire