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Old 10-18-2025, 05:16 PM
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To me, it’s the 1990 Score Bo Jackson. Sure, it’s a cool looking card. Score made (sarcasm incoming) enough of these to tile a floor the size of Texas, though.

Raw copies seem to sell routinely for $10+ and graded copies go for stupid money. There’s no way this should be anything more than dollar box fodder…and even that’s a leap.
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100% this. More of this card out there than any other in that set.
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It might be iconic by definition, but UD Griffey is the answer.
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There are a few, but the Billy Ripkin FF and the Marlboro Randy Johnson. I also can't believe how either of these cards are worth more than 10c.
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I can’t think of any other answer. There must be a minimum of 25 million of these and another 25 sitting unopened in storage. It should be no more than a dollar.
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I'm still blown away and impressed by how well Bo Jackson's fame has held up in the hobby.

I've seen kids who weren't even born when he was a player get excited to pull a Bo card. His autos still pull decent loot on resell.

He was a force of mainstream advertising gold for 2-3 years, but his star power there faded fast...yet, his popularity and place in baseball/football lore still holds.

He was out-competed by his peer also playing at the same time, Deion Sanders, in both sports...but Bo is still king in the hobby compared to him.
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Billy Ripken FF.

As for 1989 Upper Deck KGJ, have you seen how much low grade copies sell for?

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When did the junk wax era begin anyway? And is there an end in sight?

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When did the junk wax era begin anyway? And is there an end in sight?
It depends, in the 80s we thought it was the 60s.
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When did the junk wax era begin anyway? And is there an end in sight?
The term, "Junk Wax Era" is generally understood to be from the mid-to-late '80s through the early '90s.
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Odd that this thread appears in my feed directly next to the one about what the heck is going on with the 1989 UD Griffey...one may answer the other.
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The term, "Junk Wax Era" is generally understood to be from the mid-to-late '80s through the early '90s.
Lots of collectors call junk wax up through 2000. I like to tell them they are mistaken.

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It's the UD Griffey. There are other Griffey Rookie issues that look better, and it was massively produced. And yes I understand that he was a fan favorite, and it's "The Kid," and that there's always the "What it?" question that surrounds his career. He's not an inner circle Hall of Famer, in my opinion he's not even a Top 5 Centerfielder of All Time.
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Lots of collectors call junk wax up through 2000. I like to tell them they are mistaken.
Why do you think they're mistaken? What changed so much in the Baseball card world between 1990 and 2000?

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Why do you think they're mistaken? What changed so much in the Baseball card world between 1990 and 2000?
One of the things was going from printing millions of base sets to printing millions of limited edition/serial numbered sets/cards. At least that is what I noticed most as a collector back then.
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