Griffey Retires: End of an era (to me at least).

[sox1903wschamp]

Originally Posted by FUBAR

Griffey was one of my favorite players... i remember back in the day, i cracked 4 boxes trying to get his rookie card but never pulled one. I finally bought one a few years back.

I found out later from a guy, who used to work at the card store i bought from, that they knew how the distribution went within the box so you could open one pack, then figure out where the Griffey was. Then they would put extra packs back into the box and re-shrink wrap it. No wonder they didn't stick around long!

Way too much of this went on during the height of the hobby in the early 90's.

[sgbernard]

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.

[FUBAR]

trust me it still happens today, except now its jerseys and autos they pull out. check out hotpacksecrets.com and it will make you shake your head and be happy you dont collect shinies!!!