Now this was a chase card for all of us in Brooklyn. We used to save up our allowance and run to the baseball card shop and buy up those ‘89 Donruss packs like hotcakes. A couple of us ended up finding this card and we had bragging rights for weeks. I miss the simplicity of those times! 🙌🏾

I picked up this factory sealed minor league team set during Ken Griffey Jr's rookie season. It remained unopened for the next 36 years.

But then @theboovier said... "What are you gonna do with it sealed?! Rip. It. Open."

So I did. And here it is. The great Ken Griffey Jr's first ever card.

Under appreciated rookie card of the Kid.

I started collecting cards around 1987. When Ken Griffey Jr. came out in 1989, he was clearly the player everyone was looking for. I went back and tried to find minor-league cards of the players I loved. I think it told a story of their entire career, and finding some of the first cards ever made, even before the rookie cards came out, was kind of cool. They aren’t insanely valuable, but they are far more rare that has overproduced 1989 rookies from upper deck, Donruss, Fleer, and Topps