Maybe they were special gifts to a few select people and not distributed via packouts? I have seen at least one person post something online related to Griffey that he said UD had sent him at some point. Could have been contest winners, VIPs, back-doored executive/proof type cards...really could have been anything the imagine could think up as to why or how an otherwise unknown card appears. As you said, the card makers really didn't care all that much about keeping solid records on that kind of stuff anyway, so there will likely continue to be these little mysteries that pop up now and again.
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