Back when I was a 10-year-old kid opening packs of 1989 Upper Deck baseball cards hoping to pull one of the prized Ken Griffey Jr. rookie cards, you could have told me the card was Photoshopped ...

Ken Griffey Jr. and the Enduring Sports Cards of the 80s and 90s Griffey's 1989 Upper Deck Star Rookie card is the most iconic of the past 35 years. He has seven rookie cards, all part of his most ...

On any list of the most iconic baseball cards of all time ... Deck SP Derek Jeter was a better card than the 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr., even though the Jeter sells for significantly more ...

According to Beckett.com, Mariners legend Ken Griffey Jr.’s 1989 rookie Upper Deck-brand baseball card is worth $750 to $1,500 ... for using stolen credit cards. But when officers started ...

Compare this to Wilt Chamberlain, with 22,700 graded PSA cards issued during his long career (and just 1,932 are PSA 10s). Ken Griffey Jr. 1989 Upper ... that they’d be worth a lot of money.

There aren’t many sports cards in the world more iconic than the 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card. I believe it stands right alongside the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle and the 1986 Fleer ...

the true beginning of baseball cards as a piece of Americana; and the 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie, the No. 1 card in the first card set that signaled the beginning of baseball cards as ...

151; -- When Ken Griffey Jr. is inducted ... Packs of 15 cards, packaged not in wax but in foil, retailed at an unheard of $1 each beginning in February 1989. How Griffey's career took off and ...

Fans of Seattle rapper Macklemore know he considers Mariners legend Ken Griffey Jr. one of his sports heroes ... the Mariners uniform in his famous 1989 Upper Deck rookie baseball card ...

The 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 the ...

Whether you owned one card or multiple copies, the odds are high that if you collected baseball cards in the late 1980s or 1990s, you probably had the 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card.