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Rovell: HOF goofs by not including Griffey Jr.’s Upper Deck card
- Updated: July 26, 2016
10:21 PM ET
Three baseball cards stand apart as the unquestioned most iconic pieces of cardboard ever printed: the T206 Honus Wagner, the first card whose print run was cut short and whose value soared into the millions; the 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie, the true beginning of baseball cards as a piece of Americana; and the 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie, the No. 1 card in the first card set that signaled the beginning of baseball cards as an investment.
Given that the place that these three hold in card history, it is baffling that the Baseball Hall of Fame chose to feature 12 trading cards on the wall of Ken Griffey Jr.’s display unveiled this weekend in Cooperstown and didn’t include the 1989 Upper Deck card.
Courtesy Darren Rovell
Among the cards included two completely unrecognizable cards in the top row, followed by his 1992 Studio card (nothing that us collectors ever really cared for) and his Topps rookie debut card — which didn’t draw much interest because after Upper Deck, it was his Donruss and then Fleer rookie that commanded the most …
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