Nostalgia

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I ordered a case of 1989 Upper Deck baseball cards. I plan on opening a pack every time I am having a bad day. So I should burn through the case in about a month.

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As a kid living in Pinole all of the kids were collecting baseball cards, it was just something you did. I had been buying Donruss and Topps cards for 50c a pack at the local corner store. My friend one day took me to the baseball card store down the street. I had $3 and bought a $2.50 (really expensive) pack of Upper Deck, which had just come out. They were printed on glossy white stock with a little hologram sticker on each card, they were a huge improve in design, photo quality, and card stock over anything that had ever been made before.

I pulled card #1 of the entire set, Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card, the flagship card of the set. At the time it was worth $50. I kept it for years and treasured it, until someone stole it off of me. Buying a case (36 packs) is probably a 2/3 chance of pulling another one.

For years I dumped every cent I had in baseball cards and had a collection of tens of thousands. My mom still has the bulk of it (I think). It put me off candy for a few summers and on the cheap bubblegum they used to put in the

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hehehe that's cool

[mithoviel]

Ah...1989...the last great year of baseball card collecting. Searching for that coveted Ken Griffey, Jr. rookie card. Upper Deck really raised the bar for card quality that year, and in effect ruined Topps, Fleer, and Score as they begin making too many subsets and really hokey looking cards.