Basketball card collectors only have a few chances to collect tall boy cards. By definition, these are 2 1/2″ x 4 11/16″ cards. But it’s easier to think of them as basically adding another third of a standard card length (actually more like 35%, but a third will do). So that’s a tall boy, a standard card plus a third. One landmark tall boy we’ve looked at is the 1969 Topps Jerry West. There were two main sets of tall boys in basketball cards, 1969 and 1970 Topps, and that was it for a while. But in the mid-’90’s collectors had the chance to collect tall boys again.
The ’94-’95 Jam Session has minimal design elements on the front. It reminds me of Fleer’s Ultra cards where the photo took priority. Also, like Ultra, at this time, Fleer was advertising the fact that both sides were UV coated. This was a selling point in the mid-’90’s. There’s a full-bleed photo on the front with the player and team names placed in black bars. The black bars with a team color chosen for the names and the Jam Session logo background typically blend in really well with the stadium background on the photos and the jersey of the player. But there are exceptions, for example, the San Antonio Spurs got this odd pink. The fronts are minimal, but the backs are quite busy. We get another photo of the player, fortunately. But again, we have the same issues of some team colors being strange. The Spurs have a strange purple and orange basketball background. The card number is red and the player name and position is in yellow on the back, so again, depending on the team, this can make for a very busy reverse.
There were four inserts and a mail-in set in addition to this base set. Hope you enjoyed spending some time with ’94-95 Jam Session. Remember to be grateful for all your cards, even commons. Lots of history and fun in all of them!
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