Manute Bol Timeless Treasures Relic

I picked up this card way back at the end of January. It is a Perennial Materials relic card from 2012-13 Panini Timeless Treasures Basketball. Manute Bol seems to carry quite a bit of popularity and his cards tend to go for a fair amount, especially autographs and relics. He passed away in 2010, so the autographs that are out there are all that will be produced. I was able to get an autograph last year, and this is my second relic card featuring the shot-blocking specialist.

I guess this one is a little better than my first Bol relic card, as it is serially-numbered # 081 / 149. I don't collect a lot of basketball cards these days, but outside of the great Hakeem Ollajuwon I tend to focus my collection on the tallest (Manute Bol, Gheorghe Muresan, maybe Shawn Bradley) and shortest (Muggsy Bogues, Spud Webb) players in the game. I haven't really latched on to a current player yet for my collection, and I don't know when that will happen. I kind of started to follow Chandler Parsons when he was a Rocket, but then he switched over to the Mavericks and I dropped that. There are a few candidates out there, but nothing I have pursued with any vigor.

The seller threw in this Shawn Kemp card for free, which is pretty cool. Kemp was a pretty exciting player who got fat near the end of his career and fathered a billion kids across the country during his playing days. I guess that makes this post as good as any for Father's Day. My one connection to 'Reign Man' is that when I was in high school I was able to acquire a pair of Reebok Kamikaze II shoes, which I thought were pretty darn cool. Recently Reebok released a throwback in similar colors to the ones I had back then (Blue/White) and I was able to snag a pair of those.