SI on 1989 Upper Deck Griffey rookie card

I think we can agree Ryne Sandberg doesn't deserve to be in the same sentence as Nolan Ryan and Robin Yount. [/I was just placed on iggy by Cadet]

 

Is it just me or is Griffey completely unimpressed by anything? It seems like every single thing you ask him causes him to shrug his shoulders in disinterest.

 

It's not just you. He's always been like that. He thinks he's playing it cool.

 

I used to collect basketball trading cards, and had something like 800 or so before I finally stopped. Not sure where they're at now. I'll probably have to dig through the storage sometime.

 

Sorry, it ran with the story in the magazine, but not in the electronic version ...

 

That's true. But Upper Deck coming onto the scene forced everyone else to change the way they did things in order to keep up.

Along with the added expense of a better paper stock (the cost of which they just passed along to the customer), you also had disingenuous practices such as intentional "error" cards that created a market where card values would spike radically. As with any hobby, once it became flooded by speculators rather than hardcore fans, who viewed the cards as an "investment" rather than a pastime, card-collecting got bastardized somewhere around 1989-90 and I lost interest pretty quick.

 

I have one of these rookie cards still. Yet, I also have a Michael Jordan baseball card as well.

 

It wasn't just SI on the card . . .it was "Luke Winn," as we were reminded by the use of "I" and "such-and-such tells me." More "Look at ME!" journalism from SI. Happening every issue at this point . . . no shit, the reporter's there.

Never got into baseball cards. You buy a comic book, it has a story that might be part of a larger whole. You get a baseball card, it has some numbers on the back. Must note here that comic book collecting became just as bastardized and cynical in the 1990s.

The opening to the article did a good job of making the point, without saying it, of just how cheesy the card collecting business got. "Insert" cards? "Hey, kids! Get a small scrap of a game-worn JERSEY! Whooo!"

Where did they get that idea, from the Catholics and their little "Here's a scrap of St. Dominic Savio's shirt!" medals?

Embarrassing. "Upper Deck" is right.

 

"Do not bang on the glass please! It contains a rare Mary Worth, in which she advises (someon) to have an abortion!"

Or some such.

Your love for the minutiae of baseball matches mine for the minutiae of old-school X-Men and GI Joe comics.

Sadly, neither set of knowledge ever got a man laid.

Trust me, I tried.

 

That's one. I remember this one as well ...

 

Ahh the good ol reverse negative.

How about NNOF.



I collected a lot around 1989, but never got my hands on No. 1. Plenty of No. 453 and 75 (commons), but never Griffey. I still buy packs every now and then but I have mostly moved on to autographs. They retain their value better and much easier on the wallet if you know what you are doing.