Hey everyone! I had something that's I've wondered about when it comes to game used jersey swatch cards of retired players for awhile now and I was hoping someone here could shed some light for me. The basic question is, like for me who collects Isiah Thomas, where do the card manufacturers keep getting these swatches to put into cards? Isiah hasn't played in an NBA game in a little over 20 years now.
I'm sure someone else at sometime has posed this question before. I used to read Beckett and the various trade publications because I liked to be up on the back stories of the hobby. But, since my collection for a long time didn't cross over into current cards the information wasn't relevant to me and I stopped.
The other thing is I would rather see these game used jerseys whole and in the marketplace where hardcore fans can obtain them instead of chopped up and stuck into cards. Because, after all, there's no more that are going to come from actual NBA games.
I'm sure someone else at sometime has posed this question before. I used to read Beckett and the various trade publications because I liked to be up on the back stories of the hobby. But, since my collection for a long time didn't cross over into current cards the information wasn't relevant to me and I stopped.
The other thing is I would rather see these game used jerseys whole and in the marketplace where hardcore fans can obtain them instead of chopped up and stuck into cards. Because, after all, there's no more that are going to come from actual NBA games.
