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SportsamericaSportsamerica Posts: 990 ✭✭
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Is this normal? I just opened 2 boxes of 89UD baseball low numbers, and only got 350 card for the set, all of the rest are doubles or up to 24 of one card within the 2 boxes?

I don't know if this is normal, or I just got two boxes which were sorted the same.

Any 89 UD experts out there know if this is normal? I have 2 more to open, but don't want to if I am going to get the same again...

Cory
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  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    Not uncommon with the high numbers as there were boxes that ran with tandems of the same player in every pack. Not as common on the low series, but I have seen boxes like that in both series. The low series was much more common to have sequential runs that went up and down throughout the packs to the point that searchers could open a pack or two and locate the Griffey (or any other player they targeted).
  • milbrocomilbroco Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭✭
    I have opened two boxes back in 1989 and got a total of 40 Don Aase cards. 26 from one box and 24 from the other. Oh why couldn'e they have been Griffey's..........
    Bob
    ebay seller name milbroco
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  • jimmygjimmyg Posts: 139 ✭✭
    Back in '89, I was in a card store and they were selling Upper Deck packs for $5 a pack because every pack in the box had either a Jim Abbott or an Ozzie Canseco. Three different guys opened up packs and every pack had either one or the other.

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  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Not uncommon with the high numbers as there were boxes that ran with tandems of the same player in every pack. Not as common on the low series, but I have seen boxes like that in both series. The low series was much more common to have sequential runs that went up and down throughout the packs to the point that searchers could open a pack or two and locate the Griffey (or any other player they targeted). >>



    Agreed. 100%. This is abnormal for low number boxes.


    Thanks,

    David (LD_Ferg)



    1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
  • 80scollector80scollector Posts: 39
    All's I know is that I bought one box and pulled one griffey
  • Yankees001Yankees001 Posts: 1,496 ✭
    That's common. In 1989 i purchased 2 boxes and pulled 9-11 Griffey's. Sold all to the local dealer that I knew well, and made a lot. Never opened another pack.

    Dave
  • Yankees001Yankees001 Posts: 1,496 ✭
    I did get 6 from my first box, the second had either 3 or 5. Don't remember any more.

    Dave
  • SportsamericaSportsamerica Posts: 990 ✭✭
    The boxes I open were the "Griffey" boxes got plenty of them... But as a set collector it sucked.
    Cory
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    Working on:
    Football
    1973 Topps PSA 8+ (99.81%)
    1976 Topps PSA 9+ (36.36%)
    1977 Topps PSA 9+ (100%)

    Baseball
    1938 Goudey (56.25%)
    1951 Topps Redbacks PSA 8 (100%)
    1952 Bowman PSA 7+ (63.10%)
    1953 Topps PSA 5+ (91.24%)
    1973 Topps PSA 8+ (70.76%)
    1985 Fleer PSA 10 (54.85%)
  • mtcardsmtcards Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭
    I remember getting lots of dupes when opening these boxes. Hi and Lo were about the same, you could get 4 or 5 Griffeys in one box or none in the next.
    IT IS ALWAYS CHEAPER TO NOT SELL ON EBAY
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Is this normal? I just opened 2 boxes of 89UD baseball low numbers, and only got 350 card for the set, all of the rest are doubles or up to 24 of one card within the 2 boxes?

    I don't know if this is normal, or I just got two boxes which were sorted the same.

    Any 89 UD experts out there know if this is normal? I have 2 more to open, but don't want to if I am going to get the same again... >>

    I wouldn't mind if the 24 were Griffey! image

    edit: UD was very unpredictable back then - but I sure enjoy the reports or urban legends.

    Is just me - or is it amazing that over 20 yrs later - people are STILL opening this stuff? How many cases did they make? Wow!
    Mike
  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    Worst allocation I ever encountered were 89 Upper Deck.
    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
  • diamondmandiamondman Posts: 2,020


    << <i>

    << <i>Is this normal? I just opened 2 boxes of 89UD baseball low numbers, and only got 350 card for the set, all of the rest are doubles or up to 24 of one card within the 2 boxes?

    I don't know if this is normal, or I just got two boxes which were sorted the same.

    Any 89 UD experts out there know if this is normal? I have 2 more to open, but don't want to if I am going to get the same again... >>

    I wouldn't mind if the 24 were Griffey! image

    edit: UD was very unpredictable back then - but I sure enjoy the reports or urban legends.

    Is just me - or is it amazing that over 20 yrs later - people are STILL opening this stuff? How many cases did they make? Wow! >>



    1989 -UD printed 60,000 cases
    1990 UD made 40,000 cases of 1989 UD
    1991 UD made 20,000 cases of 89 UD
    1992 -2009 who knows?
    2010- UD made 30,000 cases of 89 UD
    2012- UD plans on printing 42,203 cases of 89 UD
    2013 - UD plans on just printing just 200,000 cards all 1989 K.G. card # 1
    This is just speculation.

    On a serious note collation of 1989 upper deck was horrible in the low number & high number boxes.
    I remember some of the first high number boxes/cases having zero high number cards or just 1 to 5 high numbers per box and some of the later run high number boxes having 6 to 10 high numbers per pack.

    I remember doing a card show in july of 89 took 1 sealed case plus 10 boxes, had a dealer come up to my table and wanted 3 boxes, but the only way he was buying them was i had to break open the sealed case in front of him and let him pick the 3 boxes he wanted, so I said ok here you break the seal and pick your boxes. He picked his boxes and then went to his table and started ripping. 1st box 0-Griffeys. 2nd box-0-Griffeys. 3rd box 0-Griffeys, he then came back to my table crying wanting a refund, I told him to call upper Deck and complain. While this was going on a 13 yr old comes up and buys 3 packs of 89 UD and opens them at my table and gets 2 Griffeys out of 1st pack,the next 2 packs had nothing , but this dealer turned red in face started cussing, and then asked me if I would sell him 2 more boxes, but the boxes couldn't be from the case he opened. LOL
  • diamondmandiamondman Posts: 2,020


    << <i>Is this normal? I just opened 2 boxes of 89UD baseball low numbers, and only got 350 card for the set, all of the rest are doubles or up to 24 of one card within the 2 boxes?

    I don't know if this is normal, or I just got two boxes which were sorted the same.

    Any 89 UD experts out there know if this is normal? I have 2 more to open, but don't want to if I am going to get the same again... >>



    go ahead and rip the other 2 boxes, in 1989 opened a case of low numbers, it took 8 boxes before I had 1 complete set (1-700) after opening the remaining 12 boxes, I ended up with 8 complete sets and 3 more sets missing 1 to 3 cards each. I did get 15 Griffeys and 14 Dale Murphy reverse negatives which at that time was better than Griffey Jr. image
  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I did get 15 Griffeys and 14 Dale Murphy reverse negatives which at that time was better than Griffey Jr. image >>



    Heck, at the time, Jeffries, the Sheridan error and the upside down "SS" on Sheffield were all better than Griffey.
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