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1961 Union Oil Hawaii Chiefs Specs
Year: 1961
Title: Union Oil Hawaii Chiefs
Size: 3″ by 3 15/16″
Number in Set: 10
1961 Union Oil Hawaii Chiefs Overview
The brown-tinted, 10-card oversized set features the Hawaii Chiefs American Basketball League team players. The backs use blue ink on a white background. They feature the team name, followed by the player’s name and position, a short player biography, an advertisement to listen to games on KGU radio, and the Union Oil circle 76 logo and Union Oil Company text along the bottom. The cards are unnumbered.
1961 Union Oil Hawaii Chiefs Examples And Sales
These cards are a little pricier than other oddball basketball sets from this era; the complete set pictured below had been listed on eBay for $589 back in early 2022.
And in the Summer of 2022, REA sold a PSA-graded complete set for $1,740.
PSA has graded a total of 188 (up from 131 in February 2022) cards from this set. With Dave Mills having the fewest with 15. The players with the most graded examples are George Price (24) and Lowery Kirk (22). The majority of cards are in the 5/6/7 range.
Here are a few significant sales:
- 1961 Union Oil Chiefs Dale Wise SGC 6: $150 in June 2024
- 1961 Union Oil Chiefs Frank Burgess PSA 6: $122 in December 2016
- 1961 Union Oil Chiefs Frank Burges BGV 5.5: $120 in May 2025
- 1961 Union Oil Chiefs Fred Sawyer PSA 6: $105 in September 2022
- 1961 Union Oil Chiefs Lowery Kirk PSA 5: $45 in March 2024
1961 Union Oil Hawaii Chiefs Key Cards
The cards are pretty scarce but appear equally distributed without any player carrying a premium.
1961 Union Oil Hawaii Chiefs Checklist
Frank Burgess
Jeff Cohen
Lee Harman
Rich Herrscher
Lowery Kirk
Dave Mills
Max Perry
George Price
Fred Sawyer
Dale Wise