Here’s another historic hoops item: a 1970/71 Topps basketball uncut sheet.
This one features three Pete Maravich rookies, and when it was sold in 2008 by Mastro Auctions, it was the only known example (I’m unsure if this is still true; there are definitely some partial sheets).
The sheet contains 99 fully printed Topps Tall Boy basketball cards from 1970/71 in a 9 x 11 card arrangement. On top of the three Maravich cards are thee each for West, Frazier, Robertson (AS), Baylor (AS), Havlicek (AS), and Cunningham.
Despite some surface creasing and minor issues around the periphery, the sheet was described as being in excellent condition.
The sheet was actually sold by Huggins and Scott Auctions in October 2007 for $4600 before making its way into Mastro’s a few months later.
I suspect the copy from Christopher Sanchirico’s collection is the same one.
And that sheet appears to be for sale on eBay (in May 2024) for $250k.
You can read more about the 1970 Topps Basketball set’s uncut sheets on one of my favorite hobby blogs, The Topps Archives.