1989 Upper Deck Baseball Forum

I started card collecting in 1991 but as an 11 year old in Australia I never even saw a pack of 1989 Upper Deck. I knew about them from reading Beckett, and always wanted a Griffey rookie.

Fast forward to 2024 and at 43 I ordered a few boxes off the net. Jagged Griffey, Randy and Smoltz in one pack! It was so much fun putting together a set, old school style. The cards themselves are beautiful, you can totally see how they were cutting edge back in 1989. Have a few boxes left that I am going to hold for as long as I can handle it.

Anyway, if you are tempted to buy a box do it for sure, just make sure it’s FASC as without that it’s likely the boxes were searched

Congrats on the pulls.  i assume “jagged” means you found them or pulled them?

Thanks and correct!

Congratulations, that's a pack for the ages.

Great to hear. I really enjoy stories of old school box openings.

I just wish '90s basketball would come down in price — long gone are the days when I was getting '92-93 STadium Club for $30NZD per box. Love those Shaq and 'Zo rookies and Beam Team inserts.

SUPER cool, I remember when they came out and I turned my nose up at topps.  Now and I suppose always topps is the gold standard.  Re: Griffey I called around to LCSs weekly in search of that card.  After about 2 mos I settled for the only one to be found which was severely off center…still remember forking over 50 bucks for it.  Hard to come by as 11 yr old me.  I still have that card and every other Griffey I got during my peak years.  It was my goal at that time to have a copy of every Griffey listed in Beckett.  I gave up as the prices kept climbing.  Remember beckett’s topical subsets?  I put one together of my extra Griffeys.  SIMPLER times.  FUN times.  Still having fun, but life is more complicated now…something I try to drill into my kids…but I suppose you just don’t know until you know and then well, can’t turn back the clock.  Thanks for triggering my walk down memory lane and for indulging the read if you made it this far. 😀

Interesting how we all have different views. For me, this is one of the most over rated sets of all time. Part of this might be because of when I started collecting cards. For cards of that time I still prefer the old Topps card stock. I also really dislike 1992 Topps when they went to the white stock. For modern Topps cards I am good with the stock and printing now because, yes, it can change for the better but I just wasn't as impressed by Upper Deck as much as most people I believe. For 1989 I like Topps and Donruss best. Upper Deck would be 3rd and Fleer 4th.