This past Sunday, Donald D. Peck, the retired President of Fleer pass away.

At the helm of Fleer, Mr. Peck challenged Topps and their monopoly on the sports card industry. The challenge went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1982 where Fleer was rejected in their challenge to publish baseball card packs. However, he found a way around the ruling and Fleer flourished providing sports cards to fan collections.

More information about the life of Donald D. Peck.

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Fans of various sports have often found themselves collecting sports cards of their favorite players and trading them. Sports card collecting started sometime way back in the 1930’s where player cards were used to promote sales of tobacco products and later gum. However, the early player cards were those of baseball and football players. Basketball fans had to wait until much later when card manufacturers, realizing the growing popularity of the game, started making basketball player cards. Now it is a multi million dollar industry. Basketball card collecting has become a big business in the recent years.

Basketball as a game became popular 20 years ago in the 1980s, where people started actually buying player cards and discussing statistics. Basketball cards helped basketball fans to keep in touch with their favorite players. In the early days of the basketball card collecting hobby, cards were easily available at the local pharmacy, gas station, hobby store or candy store. Given its lack of popularity, there were fewer companies manufacturing cards of basketball players and hence were easily available for much cheaper than baseball cards. If you wanted the card of a particular basketball player, then all you did was ask for his card or keep buying card sets from the manufacturer, until you got your desired card. One of the leading manufacturers of basketball players cards is Topps and they have held their own ground since late 1960s. However, today it is not that simple as there are many companies in the market, that have started manufacturing and selling basketball cards. There are many choices available to the collector, in terms of manufacturer. Each card company has its own set of cards that may differ from the others. Faced with a variety of checklists and choices, it is difficult to state that your collection is complete. With auction sites coming into the picture, the entire collecting job has become very easy and convenient for collectors who can now sit at home and buy basketball cards easily with technology like the Internet which has made the whole world as one small global community.

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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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