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Specs
Year: 1961
Title: Union Oil Hawaii Chiefs
Size: 3″ by 3 15/16″
Number in Set: 10
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.
These cards are a little pricier than other oddball basketball sets from this era; the complete set pictured below has been listed on eBay for $589. A lot of 7 different PSA graded cards sold back in 2014 for $230.
Example
Key Cards
The cards are pretty scarce but appear equally distributed without any player carrying a premium.
PSA has graded a total of 131 cards from this set. With Dave Mills having the fewest with 9. The players with the most graded examples are George Price and Lowery Kirk, with 17. The majority of cards are in the 5/6/7 range.
Checklist
Frank Burgess
Jeff Cohen
Lee Harman
Rich Herrscher
Lowery Kirk
Dave Mills
Max Perry
George Price
Fred Sawyer
Dale Wise