Ken Griffey Jr., a baseball legend, continues to make an impact even after retirement. His iconic 1989 Upper Deck - #1 Ken Griffey Jr. (RC) sports card is now available on the secondary market for ...

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It was 1989 and the word was out that the new hot baseball card was being produced in Orange County. Upper Deck, a glossy, sharp looking card with beautiful crisp photos, had the card industry abuzz ...

Have you ever flipped through an old box and stumble across an Upper Deck Griffey that's been hiding for years? For you ...

The most famous card in the history of pictures on cardboard is the T206 Honus Wagner, so rare that one of them sold for more than $2 million last year. The most well-known card of the modern era is ...

When it comes to the Junk Wax Era, there’s nothing more aesthetically pleasing than a high-quality set that features some of the best photography in the business. With that said, not only does the ...

That's not a Joba Chamberlain reference there -- it's the latest concoction in the baseball card world from Carlsbad, Calif.-based Upper Deck. It has put actual insects into baseball cards. Last ...

The first thing you'll notice is that the BGS 9.5 graded cards in the table warrant healthy and sometimes massive premiums to ungraded book value. For example, a BGS 9.5 1993 SP Derek Jeter RC carries ...

Back when I was a 10-year-old kid opening packs of 1989 Upper Deck baseball cards hoping to pull one of the prized Ken Griffey Jr. rookie cards, you could have told me the card was Photoshopped and, ...

While some would say Upper Deck set the bar impossibly high with its debut release in 1989, there is no doubt that the 1993 set surpassed it. The photography is phenomenal, the card design is at once ...

The coronavirus has turned baseball into a mere memory. But the combination of sheltering in place and eBay has made a hot commodity out of something sports collectors normally refer to as “junk wax”: ...