You all remember Tom Heinsohn, right? The 1956 regional draft pick of the Boston Celtics? Well, I’m pretty sure everyone could see the future of this young Basket ball player even before he was drafted. At Union Cross college during his Senior year, he scored a school record by dropping 51 points through the basket in a single game!

Needless to say, his professional career basically followed suit. He was part of the Boston Celtics team that won eight NBA title in nine years.  Number 15 was, of course, immediately retired after Tom retired. Well, since now you remember Tom Heinsohn, I’ll bet you are also remembering just how hard it is to find the 1957-1958 Topps basketball card of him. You know, the one featuring him going up in his number 15 Boston Celtics jersey? Card number 19 in the series? Ah, now you remember, because more than likely it is a card you have been looking for!

Well, plan on looking some more, unless you are planning on spending a hundred dollars or more on it. It seems like this is indeed the going price for the Tom Heinsohn Boston Celtic number 19 Topps trading card.  And is this for the near mint version? Maybe. If you look hard enough. But don’t expect to get a “very good” version any cheaper. Actually, expect to pay even more for a mint version.

You might find it for less if you are an incredibly gifted bargain shopper, or enjoy digging through flea market rubble. However, for those of you with more money than time on your hands, expect to dump at least the lowest triple digits on this one.

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Old or modern basketball cards for your basketball card collection can be quickly fount at BasketballCardChase.com. Just enter the basketball player and year for the card, the search results page will be displayed.

The results of your player card search is organized in two columns. Basketball card dealers and retailers will be in the left navigation column. Results of actual basketball cards, with prices and values for some, will be in the right column.

The initial search will display basketball cards from the sports memorabilia section of Ebay in the right column. Ebay has a huge selection and you are likely to find your sought after basketball card there.

To see other results, click on a player card retailer in the left column. This will instruct BasketballCardChase.com to go to the other site and retrieve the matching collectible sports card that you searched for. Continue to check other dealers by clicking the links in the left column.

Once you have found a modern or old basketball card that you have been searching for, click on it to be taken to the other site to purchase or request more information.

Not all dealer sites will have a matching basketball player for you. So, check them all until you find the card you are looking for.

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Testing of the BasketballCardChase.com website is continuing. We’ve been focusing recently on ensuring that search results for sports cards of basketball players returns results that are helpful to the collector.

The most recent round of searching for basketball cards was successful with results from most of the sites in our database. Best results came from Ebay, where we found player cards plentiful from the past 20 years. Earlier than that, basketball cards were still available, but values were heading up.

Beyond Ebay, search results for basketball cards were mixed. Most sites had good inventory of prices and player cards from the recent past. However, there were just a few sites that had results from players more than 50 years ago.

We will continue running searches for basketball cards and report any other issues here.

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