The most famous card in the history of pictures on cardboard is the T206 Honus Wagner, so rare that one of them sold for more than $2 million last year. The most well-known card of the modern era is ...
Ken Griffey Jr., a baseball legend, continues to make an impact even after retirement. His iconic 1989 Upper Deck - #1 Ken Griffey Jr. (RC) sports card is now available on the secondary market for ...
Unfortunately for collectors, most of the cards they picked up in 1989 are barely worth the cardboard they're printed on, hence the "Junk Wax Era" moniker. However, a notable outlier is the Upper Deck ...
There is a lot of bad publicity when it comes to collecting sports cards in the 80's and 90's. Due to overproducing, and over ...
Upper Deck couldnt have asked for a better scenario, when debuting in 1989. They first made sure to deliver a quality product by offering a slick design, strong card stock, and a very nice glossy ...
On any list of the most iconic baseball cards of all time, you will find the smiling face of a young George Kenneth Griffey, with a bat resting on his left shoulder and an airbrushed Mariners hat ...
After 22 seasons in the major leagues, Ken Griffey Jr. announced his retirement from baseball on Wednesday. Along with his 630 home runs, Griffey’s legacy will include his 1989 Upper Deck rookie card.
When I was a child I collected baseball cards. But I wasn’t serious about it. I clipped some of them to the spokes of my bicycle, because they made a great noise. I flipped a lot of them with my ...
It’s a rainy Saturday morning in southern Idaho and Kody Rathe is making his usual stop at Jerry’s Rookie Shop, a sports card store in Boise owned by Jerry McClusky. Rathe is here to see if McClusky ...
I was ten years old and obsessed with baseball card collecting in 1989 when Upper Deck debuted a new set of baseball cards. Up to that point there were three card companies: Topps, Donruss, and Fleer.
Three baseball cards stand apart as the unquestioned most iconic pieces of cardboard ever printed: the 1909 T206 Honus Wagner, the first card whose print run was cut short and whose value soared into ...