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WilliamI'm not a card collector anymore, so excuse my ignorance, but, what makes a card a fake? Is it simply being an unauthorized printing no matter how large the print run is?
These were all over the NE show circuit in 1989. I have one in my collection too. Probably paid $10 for it back then. You could have purchased hundreds of these at any given show back then. I don't recall there being any chatter about them being fakes, but I do recall there being a proliferation of fakes in general during that time frame. Those however, were usually replicas of desirable cards like the Clemens and Mattingly rookie cards. This Griffey card seems to be in a different category if fake.