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1969 Converse Staff Specs
Year: 1969
Title: Converse Staff
Size: 2 1/4″ by 2 3/4″
Number in Set: 9 on a Staff Shoe Box, 10 on an Athletic Shoe Box, and 11 different between the two.
1969 Converse Staff Overview
Converse (now a subsidiary of Nike) printed these cards on boxes of their Staff & Athletic shoe boxes. 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.
1969 Converse Staff Examples And Sales
Huggins and Scott Auctions sold the shoebox pictured below (which included size 5.5 shoes) and says “Staff Shoe” on the lid, for $461 in 2016. Notice that it only features nine cards.
A year earlier (November 2015), Huggins & Scott sold the following box for $1,673. Notice that this box features ten cards, but has a different lid and product code (1-9365 for MENS BLACK OX vs. 2-9364 for BOYS WHITE OX on the Staff box)
From what I can see:
- Both boxes show Gib Ford, Bunny Levvit, Bob Davies, Joe Dean, Bob Houbregs, and John Norlander,
- The Staff box shows Bob Boyd
- The Athletic box shows Stu Inman and Earl Lloyd
In terms of more modern prices, the following Staff box is available on eBay today (September 2025) for $540. This one has a product code of 1-9364 for MENS WHITE OX.
1969 Converse Staff Key Cards
Most families didn’t save these shoeboxes, so most were thrown out, making the cards pretty rare. However, all cards are present when a box appears, so no single card appears scarcer than any other.
1969 Converse Staff (and Athletic Shoe) Checklist
Bob Boyd
Bob Davies
Joe Dean
Gib Ford
Bob Houbregs
Rod Hundley
Stu Inman
Bunny Levitt
Earl Lloyd
John Norlander
Phil Rollins