From both a collector side and a baseball fan side, I'm a big fan of the Kid. Of course, I was pulling open those '89 UD packs to find his card: all I came up with was a Ricky Jordan RC, which at the time was not so bad. Uh....
But more importantly, in his prime years, Griffey had the most beautiful and fluid swing I have ever seen live, by far. It got a bit more compact in his later years; earlier, it was really the smoothest thing I've ever seen. Poetry in baseball.
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