1993 Skinnies Parody with add Basketball Box!!!
These unlicensed basketball cards take it a step, make that 20 steps, further. Many are off color, inappropriate, and in some cases flat out offensive. The 177 card set takes aim at pretty much every named player in the NBA, with some players taking shots more than once.
The genesis of the company and the cards is a rather interesting one. Brothers Paul and Joseph Mauro, of Northport, New York were the men behind Skinnies and First Amendment Publishing.
Joseph, an attorney, became interested in sports cards while doing case study at New York Law School. One particular suit we studied prohibited a company from doing trading cards of serial killers. In turn, Mauro created First Amendment Publishing and produced a card set called Sex Maniacs and a comic book of Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuocco. Really.
The Skinnies basketball product was the companyâs first foray into sports cards as they envisioned a cutting-edge product taking an old market in a new, in your face direction.