Comments on: Classic Card – Michael Jordan

By: Evil E

Evil E — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:46:35 +0000

No clue how many were made, but anything with Jordan has a little bit of value. I doubt you’d get more than $5 for one, but it’s worth hanging onto. It will help ppl remember that his Airness tried his hand at el beisbol.

By: Elma Howard

Elma Howard — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:45:51 +0000

Just wondering if that card holds any real value. being a ‘knock off’ and all? Do you know how many were made? You see I am not a big basketball fan. But, I am a baseball fan and happen to posses a copy of that paticular card.

By: Air Jordans

Air Jordans — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:39:34 +0000

Yeah, Iâ€™d say those converted statistics were pretty accurateâ€¦ in a â€œHarold Miner is the next Jordanâ€ kind of way.

By: Evil E

Evil E — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:41:27 +0000

Interesting. Maybe there are different variations?

By: Paul Mathews

Paul Mathews — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:59:59 +0000

I actually own this baseball card. I just found it in my parent’s house tonight. Curiously, although my card also has the ludicrous conversion statistics, it only lists Jordan’s basketball stats from the 84-85 and 85-86 seasons. It’s shocking that there would be such poor quality control at the printing facility of Aamer Sports, the premier imitation baseball card company in all of Taiwan.

By: Bulls Home

Bulls Home — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:28:33 +0000

I have to agree with Harvey.. there are mediocre baseball players with numbers similar to the ones you predict for Jordan.. so youre saying most baseball players would be amazing basketball players?
haha
I understand what you mean tho, nice number crunching.

By: Harvey Bars

Harvey Bars — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:57:08 +0000

So if those are his numbers over 185 games, what you’re telling me then is that if like Geoff Jenkins played basketball he’d have averaged like 45 PPG while pulling down 13 boards.

By: dumber

dumber — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:44:33 +0000

“I mean, if youâ€™re going with the rationale that Jordan will dominate baseball like he did basketball â€” a ridiculous premise in its own right, but probably the most logical in this case â€” then wouldnâ€™t these stats be a little better?”

To understand what Faux Topps was saying back in 1990 (asuming that is when the card was made) lets compare Jordan’s converted stats to Barry Bonds MVP 1990 season stats.

R H 2b 3b HR RBI SB BB SO AVG
Jordan 115 180 18 9 29 91 26 26 32 .302
Bonds 104 156 32 3 33 114 52 93 83 .301

Keeping in mind that Jordan’s converted stats are a yearly average and Bonds stats are from one season it is safe to assume that Jordan would have dominated Bonds statistically that year.

Now the real question that comes to mind is this; Does MJ ever wonder if the real reason he did not make it in baseball has to do with steroids? I mean couldn’t you imagine Jordan and Barkley sharing a cigar and MJ looks over at Barkley and says you know I would have made it in baseball if they weren’t all amped up on steroids?

By: Evil E

Evil E — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:57:06 +0000

Good stuff Mike.

Jordan’s ACTUAL double-A minor league baseball stats can be found here:
http://minors.baseball-reference.com/players.cgi?pid=7485

127 games, 1 triple, 3 home runs, 51 RBI’s, 114 strikeouts, .202 average

Yeah, I’d say those converted statistics were pretty accurate… in a “Harold Miner is the next Jordan” kind of way.