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Specs
Year: 1969
Title: Converse Staff
Size: 2 1/4″ by 2 3/4″
Number in Set: Beckett and TCDB both say 10, but they both list Bob Boyd twice, and the shoebox that’s shown below shows 9 different cards.
Overview
Converse (now a subsidiary of Nike) printed these nine cards on boxes of their Staff shoe. The front of each card uses blue ink on a white background and features a drawn portrait, a short bio, and a basketball tip. The backs are blank and unnumbered.
Huggins and Scott Auctions sold the shoebox pictured below (which included size 5.5 shoes) sold for $375 in 2016.
Example
Key Cards
Most families didn’t save these shoeboxes, so most were thrown out, making the cards pretty rare. However, all nine cards are present when a box appears, so no single card appears scarcer than any other.
Checklist
Bob Boyd
Bob Davies
Joe Dean
Gib Ford
Bob Houbregs
Rod Hundley
Bunny Levitt
John Norlander
Phil Rollins