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T he 1989 Ken Griffey Jr. Upper Deck rookie card is not just another of the many cards that were printed between 1987-1994, it’s THE CARD. It was a changing of the guard in a way, a move past ...

Upper Deck created one of the most iconic baseball rookie cards with the release of the 1989 Star Rookie of Ken Griffey Jr. Upper Deck's existence as a baseball card company ran concurrently with ...

Ken Griffey Jr. 1989 Upper Deck #1 — 113,943 total PSA population The perfect convergence of the height of the rookie card market, which drove the explosion of cards produced .

The 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey, Jr, is NOT a rookie card. Don't get me wrong. Back in 1989, of course this was Junior's rookie card, as were his various other cards of the same year.

Ken Griffey Jr. is one of the most exciting players to ever step between the chalk. ... Last but not least is a 1989 Upper Deck rookie card, ... This card will set you back $250,000.

Obviously, Upper Deck hit a home run choosing Griffey as the No. 1 card in its debut set. No doubt about that. But even with that huge vote of confidence, the company still underestimated him.

There is no such thing as a “bad” Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card, but the Upper Deck ... I opened a bunch of packs of 1989 Upper Deck back then — whenever I’d saved enough allowance and ...

Upper Deck, a glossy, sharp looking card with beautiful crisp photos, had the card industry abuzz with anticipation. This was not the old Topps cards of my youth, the ones with those awful pink ...

Back in 2010, when this book was published, Griffey’s Upper Deck card was the most graded card in PSA history. Over 50,000 Griffey rookies from this set were graded at that point. That’s a lot ...