Lot # 29: 1993 Grand Slam Ventures Golf Card Book

Category: Masters Tournament

Starting Bid: $25.00

Bids: 9 (Bid History)

Time Left: Auction closed

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Item was in Auction "Summer 2007 Golf Auction",
which ran from 8/12/2007 11:15 PM to
8/27/2007 10:35 AM



Rare Grand Slam Ventures Golf Ca

 

Rare Grand Slam Ventures Golf Card Book

   The Grand Slam Ventures set was originally produced in the early 1990's with a card for each Masters Tournament Champion.  Each subsequent year, another card would be produced for that year's champion.  While the cards were generally purchased as a set, there are also a limited number of books produced for the cards as well.  The books contained the actual cards, and a new page could be purchased each year after the Masters.  The Grand Slam Ventures cards were known to some serious collectors, but didn't get much recognition until they released the first-ever Tiger Woods card.  There was only one problem - Grand Slam Ventures reportedly did not have authorization to produce Tiger's likeness.  Production of the cards were stopped and collectors were scrambling to find as many of the Grand Slam Ventures cards as possible.

    Presented here is the original book containing the Grand Slam Ventures golf set, from 1993.  Long before the Tiger hoopla, this set was obtained by a collector and kept in remarkable shape.  The book contains the pages (and the actual cards) of every Masters Champion from 1934 (Horton Smith) to 1993 (Langer). The cards from this book are not the regular Grand Slam Ventures cards, however, but are the rare gold foil editions that can only be found in these books.