Garfield Heard or Gar Heard

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The Shot Heard 'Round The World

I have this lovely autograph card and i think it's good to share with you all about this player. A short story about why Garfield Heard or you can call him Gar Heard, become famous.

The "Shot heard round the world" is a well known phrase that has come to represent several historical incidents throughout world history. The line is originally from the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymn (1837), and referred to the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Later, in Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations, the phrase became synonymous with the shot that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and plunged Europe into World War I.

In the NBA, the phrase is well-known for the memorable fifth game of the 1976 NBA Finals. Gal Heard's high-arching jumper as time expired in the second extra period sent the contest into triple OT, the first in Finals history. Heard's dramatic "Shot Heard Round The World" found its mark 31 years ago, sending Game 5 of the 1976 NBA Finals between the Suns and Celtics to a third overtime, extending the "Greatest Game Ever Played" for yet another five minutes. At the end, Celtics won Game 5 in Triple OT: 128-126. Heard scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds while playing a team-high -- and NBA Finals record -- 61 minutes in that June 4, 1976 contest, but it was his heroics at the end of the second overtime that will forever be remembered.

The shot was also voted by Phoenix fans as the most memorable moment in franchise history during a Suns.com poll in 1998. Gar contributed more than that single shot, though. Over the course of his Suns career, the 6-6 forward averaged 7.5 points and 7.1 rebounds a game.

Since his playing days, Heard has established himself as one of the NBA's most respected coaches. Currently an assistant with the Atlanta Hawks, Heard has also served as a head coach with Dallas and Washington and has assisted in Indiana, Dallas, Philadelphia and Detroit. He began his coaching career in 1982 as an assistant at Arizona State University.

You can see the video about the shot in this link.

Certificate Of Authenticity - COA

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Is there anything you like most in collecting cards, than having a card that personally autographed by the player you have adore for years? I don't. Thus, i really love my autograph cards, wether it's include piece of other memorabilia or not.

You can get those autograph by asking the player, or get it from pacs. An autograph card from cards manufacture have their own certificate of authenticity printed on the card. Usually in the back have an annoucement that the card company certify the autheticity of the autograph.

Card company such as Topps, has sticker on the autograph.

Skybox (Fleer) has seal of authenticity in the front of the card.

If you can ask the player to sign a card from you, there is no Certificate Of Authenticity (COA). Unless you send it to a company such as Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) or Global Authentication (GAI) or other reputable company, i guess it's hard to convince other person that your autograph's card is authentic.

Months ago, i bought a card that signed by Larry Bird with a COA, but i had sold the card. You can see the example of a Certificate of Authenticity. If you ask me is that an authentic autograph or not, honestly i really don't know. But the autograph it seems typical with the autograph cards from Card Company, see here. Click the picture below to enlarge.

Below are some additional pointers to keep in mind when you are told that an autograph card has a certificate of authenticity:

* To repeat: Always see read, understand, and substantiate the full text of any certificate of authenticity BEFORE you buy the card.

* If the card is for sale online, request and review the complete COA, front and back, and not just a portion of it. Either have the seller FAX it to you or send clear, legible, and complete digital images.

* Any conditional statements found in a certificate of authenticity such as "in our considered opinion..." or "we believe that..." are warning signs that the card may not be genuine. A valid certificate states that the card is unquestionably signed by the player who has signed it.

* A valid certificate of authenticity should contain documented proof or evidence as to why the autograph is genuine.

* If you have any questions about a certificate of authenticity, contact the individual or entity that authored it, assuming that person is not the seller, and ask those questions BEFORE you buy the card.

* A certificate without adequate contact information for the person or company making the statements, or with only an unidentifiable signature should not be considered valid. Illegible or incomplete contact information is NEVER acceptable.

* Certificates for card by famous company such as Upper Deck, Classic, and Topps should include the exact titles of the card, dates the card was produced, names of publishers (for limited editions), edition sizes (for limited editions), and exact dimensions of the card.

* Anytime that a certificate of authenticity does not meet all of the above requirements, consider yourself at risk if you buy the card.

INSERT CARDS

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Insert card has many variety. The popular insert card is an autograph insert card. The most popular autograph insert card is an autograph patch insert card. It sell more expensive than a common insert card. Here are some of my autograph patch insert cards (click to enlarge):

Larry Bird Auto Patch Exquisite

Jason Kidd Auto Patch Exquisite

Kobe Bryant Auto Patch UD Game Used

The Basic of Basketball Cards

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I guess we have to understand the basic about basketball card, here we go . . .

CASE - BOX – PACK

CASE = The card company distribute its product with cases. Each case contain some boxes

BOX = In a box, you can find 1 pack or more. Some manufacture, produce boxes that contain 36 pack.. The premium card usually has fewer packs. For Example Exquisite; it has just 1 pack

PACK = In a pack, you can find 1 or more cards. Recent packs usually has fewer cards. For Example Topps Trademark Moves has just 5 cards in a pack.

REGULAR CARD

Let’s talk about the regular card. When you buy a box or just a pack, its cover has informations about what you will find in a box or a pack. A product usually has regular cards (base cards) that produce massively (the picure on the left is Jordan's Exquisite base card). You can devide a regular card into 2 different type: statistic and subset.

Statistic Regular Card has a spesific player’s statistic history year by year and sometimes plus a short information about the player.

Subset Regular Card has a specific information or events or anything else beside a statistic regular card.

Why Collecting Cards?

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Basketball is NBA, so just collect Basketball cards!

Yeah, i like watching NBA action since a little kid. It's fun. The thing i like most is collecting basketball card. The funny thing is, if i remember about basketball i just remember all NBA players.

If you looking some NBA cards you can visit

http://cesariogallery.blogsome.com/ and you can ask a specific player that you wanted to collect.

Well, collecting is really challenging. Like the picture on the top. It's Michael Jordan Insert Card From Topps 1996-97 Super Team NBA Finals. This card more valuable than regular card.

I guess some people wondering about what is regular card? What is Insert card? e.t.c. Here it is:

Regular Card: Card that you can find in any packs from all basketball cards manufacture. Usually the front card consist the player photo's. Behind are the statistics and/or short story about the player.

Insert Card: Card that you can find from a pack but there is an odds. Example, an odds to find Magic's All Rookie Insert Card From HOOPS is 1:36. It means, You can find 1 card in every 36 packs.

Parallel Card: Card that similar to Reguler or insert Cards, but with diffrent design. And there is an odd to find this kind of card (see: Insert Card). A parallel card from a regular or insert card is more difficult to find.

But what exactly that make people crazy to collect them?

If you like someone or something, you will often imagine about it. Like to talk about it. And become interesting everything about it. In a basketball card, you can see a picture, a statistic, history, story, a piece of memorabilia such as signature/autograph, jersey, warm up, shoe, floor and any other things. And it's really cool to have some of the cards and see them in your possession.

The second thing, a basketball card has a value. If you have a Lebon James Rookie card from exquisite, it worth around $10,000. Can you imagine it? If the player are hot or on the fire such as Kevin Garnett, the value of his card will gradually up. Why? That's refer to Economic theory, supply and demand. If many people searching for specific player's card and not much people offer to sell it, it will more valuable than a player that not much people want to buy, in the other hand many seller offer the cards.

Third is the challenge and satisfaction. If you want to collect a player, for example Jason Kidd, you will exciting if you have his card that only 25 cards exsist. Or maybe just 1 card in the whole world it called 1/1 card. And if you can complete a series of insert card, that make your collection worth to proud of. But to complete a series is not easy.