Comments on: How to Resent the Best Baseball Card from 1989 in 17 Easy Steps

By: 2010 Upper Deck Ken Griffey, Jr., Set the World Right - Wax Pack Gods

2010 Upper Deck Ken Griffey, Jr., Set the World Right - Wax Pack Gods — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 22:34:50 +0000

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Mark McGwire Is Paul Bunyan on His 1989 Upper Deck Baseball Card — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 23:20:46 +0000

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By: j.

j. — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:50:48 +0000

And oh yeah, here’s another thing about the glossy backs of those ’89 upper deck cards

“marble”, “earthtones”. “silver foil holograms.”

They knew what they were doing.

By: j.

j. — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:46:57 +0000

The best Griffey rookies *visually* are the Topps Traded and the Score. The Upper Deck is nothing but a spectacle and though the super close up shot is somewhat iconic it still “phones it in”. Although I do like the back of the upper deck. Lots of glossy reading material.

By: Adam Hughes

Adam Hughes — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 10:07:17 +0000

In reply to Charlie Mowry.

Agreed that it’s a great card, and I said as much in the post. I don’t love it, though, for the reasons listed. Still fun to write and talk about. Thanks for commenting.

By: Charlie Mowry

Charlie Mowry — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 03:13:12 +0000

Sorry, I get your premise, but I can’t read the whole post, or anything but the title, the first paragraph or so, and a quick scan of everything else. I’m a lifelong Griffey fan (Reds kind, not the Mariners kind) and he’s pretty much the reason I’m a baseball fan and that I’ve collected cards for a lot of my life. It’s a great card. It made fans out of so many kids who were born around 1980. I mean, yeah, go ahead and take the McGwire 1985 USA rookie, or the Frank Thomas 1991 NNOF or the Jeter ’93 SP Foil rookie card or the A-Rod SP rookie card that had a die-cut parallel. There’s nothing wrong to a traditionalist with those cards. Other than steroids, variant craze, foil effects taking over creativity, and parallel insanity. That Griffey card may be the last one that represented “awesome” for a 8 or 10-year old kid in 1989 in a way it represented “cool” for 10-year old kids who had a Mantle card in the 1950’s. Today’s cards probably can’t represent that same thing for some kid born in 2008.