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CHICAGO BULLS
The In Between Years

And oh yes! Then there is that other other favorite sport. In December, 1993, Michael began playing baseball, eyeing a tryout with the Chicago White Sox. On March 31, 1994, the White Sox assigned Jordan to the Class AA Birmingham Barons of the Southern League. Jordan started his first pro baseball game on April 8, 1994, playing right field. For the season, Jordan bats .202 with 51 RBIs, 30 stolen bases and 114 strikeouts in 127 games. There are a number of Jordan baseball cards, but the creme de la creme is the following which we show not only in BGS 9.5 condition but also as a PSA 10:

This card appears in the July 11-July 18, 2005, issue of Sports Illustrated as one of the three most elusive Jordan cards of any MJ collection. SI said the following:

In 1994, after Michael Jordan first retired from the Bulls to join the Birmingham Barons, a White Sox Double A farm team, Fleer made his baseball card. But the company wasn’t happy with his photo, so it destroyed the 90,000 cards it had printed---except for the dozen or so kept by Fleer employees. Only three have surfaced in the past decade. Says Gracia (Oscar Gracia, author of Collecting Michael Jordan Memorabilia), “They are so limited that most collectors don’t even know they exist.”

Following are a few other basecall cards beginning with the Fleer card #633 that was actually produced and replaced the previous one:

And of course, just because Michael stopped playing NBA ball, this did not mean that the basketball cards did not keep on coming. Here is a sampling of some of those cards during this period of “inactivity:”

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