HUNTING THE ICONIC GRIFFEY! 🤞🤞1989 Upper Deck

[@aaronmaxim]

These packs literally changed baseball card collecting. Huge deal

[@ryandeffley7652]

I feel like the Smoltz RC deserves to be sleeved/set aside.

[@djquiksilva]

Ryan Deffley .. 👍🏽

[@naterthot69]

You can buy the same card for a buck

[@ethancbaker2002]

Also Randy Johnson lol

[@ImmaWright]

Watching this 3 years later and dude doesn't even know the players, hope he gave up busting boxes 😂

[@thefriarforrestshow8154]

i enjoyed collecting in the 80's... used to mow lawns and would take my few dollars over to 7-11 or AMPM and get a slushee and a few packs for a quarter each... straight set collecting checking em off the checklist card with a pen... traded doubles with friends to collect all 700 cards... good 'ol days...

[@WhatDaBidnessIsCuh]

"What's up everybody my names Phil the channel is Phil's Pulls" BWANANANANANABWANANANANAAABWANABANANANABWANANANANANA

[@marshallprice8503]

What a weird day, I woke up today and decided to finally open my box of 1990 Series II Leaf cards that I purchased when I was a young man. I got half way thru the box and had 3 Frank Thomas, 3 Larry Walker and 4 Randy Johnsons. I stopped very happy with mu cards and then turned on the TV and watched you open this 89 Upper Deck. A good day all around. Thanks for what you do!!

[@daveofthedead1361]

8:39 🤗

[@aidenginn2361]

Thanks

[@xGodofAcidx]

I miss the days when you didn't have to look for a number on a card to determine if it had any value

[@ryanschaff123]

Yea let’s just go back to the days when cards had less value than scrap cardboard.

[@JuannyRum23]

@@ryanschaff123 Those cards came in handy for scooping up poop from my dog...cheaper than a paper plate

[@EBBE-uf2wp]

This was my era collecting. I remember how Upper Deck cards stood apart from others by having that deep saturation in color. Just looked more expensive back in the day.

[@thecman26]

Still the best in my opinion!

[@FISHERMAN331977]

I bought one pack for like $5 outside Fenway Park about 20 yrs ago and pulled the Griffey!

[@joembells5449]

On yawkee or Lansdown st ?

[@ericgutierrez5726]

I got mine at K-mart. When I was a kid.

[@naterthot69]

Damn you got scammed hard for $5 a pack, guess it was worth it

[@FISHERMAN331977]

@@joembells5449 I'm not sure what side it was on. I want to say yawkey way because i don't think it was behind the monster

[@FISHERMAN331977]

@@naterthot69 na even back then the Griffey was like a $120 and a box was like $150 to $180. 36 packs × $5 is right in that range.

[@jed21]

Griffey has to be top 5 most iconic cards people chased in pack opening, especially in the junk wax era that card was so hard to get. And upperdeck packs were expensive back then. Love that card

[@josephbruno8711]

I'm fairly certain the 1989 boxes did not come factory sealed. At that time Upper Deck cards always ran in serial number order. Very easy to find the Griffey. All you had to do was open the top pack of each of the four stacks to know exactly where the card would be in the box. I did not know this for many years after 1989 - and after I opened almost 10 boxes, never pulling a Griffey card on my own.

[@brandonevans4142]

"watch your profanity" gets me rollin every time😁

[@GymAndSun]

Haha me too, that and the fake laugh to eye roll clip

[@johnmackor6022]

My mom found a sealed set at a yard sale for $5. When I opened it the Griffey was flawless. Sending it out for grading expecting no less than a 9.

[@johnmackor6022]

@John D 150-200

[@bobo44donemilking51]

It's hard to get a good Griffey in a factory set because he's the first in the set and gets banged up alot more than the other cards in the set

[@thecman26]

Back in the day I paid $10 per box for 92 upper deck and I got 12 of em! Did pull a Ted Williams auto! That was a fun weekend opening packs!

[@lightfighter7873]

I was 11 years old and worked in a baseball card shop in Maine when this came out. Brings back memories. Complete 5 tool player

[@jeremystark3350]

I remember going to a card show in 1990 and pulling on of these cards in a pack. The whole show seemed to stop and come congratulate me. Was a highlight of my pack pulling career.😁

[@j.shearer1958]

And today that mass produced card isn't worth a Starbucks coffee...congrats...

[@kingdavig]

​@@j.shearer1958this didn't age well

[@ss8512]

Mark Mcguire rookie is on the top cards of all time. I remember when they used to sell his rookie and hobby boxes on home shopping network

[@Steve_Thompson]

Love watching vintage box breaks. Thanks for doing this Phil. Glad you hit a Griffey.

[@joeshaver1104]

The Albert hall from this set got me into card collecting. I found it laying on the road. The shiny upper deck logo on the back made my 6/7 year old mind explode. Wanted more. From then on it was saving up my money to buy packs of cards at the local red food store.

[@BS-md8zz]

I opened Multiple cases back in 89. Here is a FACT. U can go to the middle (5th pack down) of any row, open it and check the card number of the rookie. If it’s card number #3 for example, 2 packs away will be Griffey. Either 2 packs up or 2 packs down. Hope this makes sense.

[@WaveofCards]

Exactly. Which is why with multiple Luis Medinas showing up, and only one Griffey, it's a fact this box was mapped and backfilled (they just missed the other Griffey).

[@jeffbandy7065]

I have my one and only that I pulled back in 89. Griffey got me into collecting and I have over a thousand unique Jr’s in my PC. Now I’ve got my son into collecting. Thanks for the trip down memory lane

[@pcf1177]

What about the John Smoltz rookie?

[@brandonkief3278]

You should have put the Smoltz to the good card pile! After all he is a hall of famer! Fun video your editor is top notch!! True story one day i went into my LCS during Covid-19 March i think and i opened a couple packs of Opening Day hit a Gavin Lux auto! Then he had some packs of 89 Upperdeck High Number and i hit the Griffey Jr. in the second pack!

[@jamesbryant455]

I remember buying a few packs from the local shop when it first came out and I pulled 2 and was offered $100 for one on the spot. As a 14 year old kid that was huge back then

[@Splifftone]

Much better story than myself as a kid pulling that Griffey in my first pack of Upper Deck at my LCS....and immediately trading it to the shop for a complete set of '87 Fleer mini. 😩

[@TJAlcaraz]

Splifftone ouch man.

[@TJAlcaraz]

Did you take the money?

[@TheChoochooboy99]

There were so many of these printed in 1989 that convenience stores carried them, not just baseball card stores. They were 99 cents per pack and could be found at 7-11, Circle K, QuikTrip, among many others. I had at least ten Griffey’s and four sets that I had built as a twelve year old kid. They are hardly scarce, but it is still the most iconic set of the 1980’s. Will I pay $300 for a box now, when they were half that just six months ago? No way!

[@thecman26]

Must be nice, here in Kansas they were only at card shops and were $2 a pack!

[@jimbrown5055]

Those packs were searchable! Once the numerical order was figured you could know if Griffey was in the box. Each pack had two cards from each 100's...0-100,101-200,201-300 etc plus one unknown hundred. Those boxes had no shrink wrap from a fresh case....beware!!

[@danpater7128]

I bought one pack back in I think 91 at a card shop for 5 bucks. Opened it and the first card I saw was the Griffey. The pack also had a nolan Ryan. I'll still to this day, choose junk era cards over new stuff anyday

[@geoffgordon410]

This was the first pack that was sealed that it was hard to repack the cards. Also the guarantee of no doubles in a pack. Yet I did get a pack from my LCS that did.

[@maligatorbaseball2789]

I read somewhere that PSA heavily weighs how the hologram on the back looks.

[@tommylabors]

I heard that 2... If it's centered or not.. fricken psa

[@KeepsItReal5555]

@ 13:55 I literally fell off the toilet! Yes my past time is watching Phils Pulls while pooping.

[@superman04p]

If you were collecting when this card was released or even started shortly after (2 to 5yrs) this really was the most iconic card.... It dominated want lists back in the early 90s....

[@geoffgordon410]

It seemed like it was on the Beckett Hot List for years.

[@Yaboizim]

I was laughing the whole time we were trying to do the arithmetic from 1949 to 1989

[@No.social.media-1974]

Favorite collecting year...has to be the 1st one...1987. Wood borders on the Topps, cool blue Fleer, and the Donruss with the baseballs on the borders. Mattingly, Bonds, Maddux, McGwire...classic players.

[@cardscott5]

With all the clips, I can't believe there's not a "They call me Joseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" for Jose Canseco

[@chrissquitieri3628]

I love love love your build up music to when you pull a big hit.... Gets me pumped...

[@scottspaulding2158]

Nice Griffey Jr rookie and love the Smoltz and Johnson rookies.

[@toddbentle2651]

The McGwire was a very cool card as well.

[@DerbyDad79]

I remember back n 89 when I pulled the Griffey out of 2nd pack I bought. I was 10-11 yrs old . He was and still his my favorite ball player

[@klingmicah]

I didn't know this was Phil Hughes for a long time..I remember him playing on the Yankees back in the day

[@thecman26]

Seriously? I remember that name!

[@davidstribble7728]

Fun fact...the art work on the collector's choice cards in this set were done by Vernon Wells father

[@Retired_Detective51]

Bob Horner and his “ideal form” once hit 4 hrs in one game.

[@sourgrapestastesweet6674]

And he had a much better career then Phil

[@Retired_Detective51]

Jason McGaughy (in regards to taking bad about Phil) We don’t do that here.

[@sourgrapestastesweet6674]

If he deserves it we do. Pack weighing cheater. I guess if you make 80 million dollars for being a mediocre pitcher then you don't care about cheating honest collectors.

[@alexandert.6933]

Nobody: Phil when he says donut: 🥐

[@GymAndSun]

Favorite years collecting: 90’s and now

[@KnuckleHead1983]

J V mine too the market has rebounded tremendously and all these players like giannis and luka etc are making that happen

[@gageprince4265]

Doesn't put the smoltz in the good pile :(

[@legionofbarry]

Something to consider, when you open boxes with many packs and cards like this, why not open them all up real fast and stack the cards in piles. That will make the scanning of the cards for fluid and faster. Just a thought. Keep on having fun.

[@bakermob29]

Lol Pete Incavilia. When I was a kid at Tiger games I used to yell “Stinky Inky!” at him.

[@yolocards2]

The Fake Out Music is the best 😄😄

[@jamesdelusie3124]

editing gets better every video

[@billybennett4103]

I have never seen the 89 upperdeck Dale Murphy reverse negative pulled or talked about

[@RFP15]

Fun fact: The artwork on the checklists was drawn by Vernon Wells's father.

[@twiztidcrimson206]

Always love the comedy cutaways

[@jamesreynolds9673]

Great time watching you open these up. I woulda sleeved the Alomar jr rookie and the Smoltz rookie as well. That's just me though. You should go on a Griffey jr rookie card chase. 89 fleer... score traded..topps traded..bowman..just to see if you could hunt them all down bro. Thanks for sharing.

[@whome126144]

I wonder why you put the John Smoltz He's a Hall of Famer's rookie card puzzling

[@djquiksilva]

Judy Ginquitti ... thinking the same 🥺

[@marcdavis82280]

Phil there is a book out there from 1994 called Card Sharks. It tells how the President of Upper Deck Richard McWilliam saw how valuable the Griffey Rookie card was and went back to the presses to make 65,000 more cases. I think you would like reading about that.

[@Straightmoney7]

Didnt want to put aside the John Smoltz rookie?

[@siskjoe]

You just threw the Smoltz rookie in with the rest of the commons...

[@Splifftone]

Just a premium RC of a HOF'er.

[@TheGodYouWishYouKnew]

Splifftone He shouldn’t be a HOF.

[@PatMcCarthy420]

My favorite years were 1989-98. Golden years of collecting

[@RetepElpmet]

Favourite year collecting...1986. First year collecting cards. Just moved to the US after living in France & the UK. I had no clue about anything baseball, but collecting helped me understand the sport. Although while I love baseball as a sport, I love cricket more as a bat and ball sport.

[@aerok1983]

This year will always be remembered as Ken Griffey JR and the rest . I think the best year of collecting is 1997-98. Time that star Ruby, ultra platinum, and pmg come out

[@travisyoung3653]

I shoveled snow and delivered a ton of newspapers for those packs.I still got my original Junior but it's kinda yellow.Another cool one.Rock On🤗

[@WhatsYourGhostStory]

great psych-out at the end....hahaha

[@ryanra44]

I opened a box of 89 UD 5 years ago. I hit the exact same as you did. Two Johnson’s and one Griffey.

[@samssportsshop]

Congrats on the griffey

[@droogie76]

Damn no love for smoltz.

[@TheGodYouWishYouKnew]

He shouldn’t be a HOF

[@wittybanter96]

@@TheGodYouWishYouKnew Why not exactly?

[@droogie76]

@@TheGodYouWishYouKnew wasnt he a first ballot?

[@TheGodYouWishYouKnew]

droogie76 Maybe. Shouldn’t have been though

[@TheGodYouWishYouKnew]

WittyBanter 96 Everyone says that he deserved to be in the Hall because he became a great closer for a few years. What great starting pitcher wouldn’t have been able to do that? He got the chance because injuries didn’t allow him to start for a few years . He shouldn’t be enshrined for that

[@davidgerow]

Can someone tell me why card company’s put some cards upside down and backwards?

[@CFCoolectibles]

I like how excited you were to hit that.

[@Rorschachqp]

Basically that first pack you pulled had the Luis Medina, card #2 I believe. Griffey is #1. So it’s right next to the Griffey on the print sheet. If you had a Griffey in the box, it really looks like it would be there or very close by.

[@IcebergCaptain]

20 years later & I can still smell those packs.....

[@IcebergCaptain]

30 years my bad

[@thegrimripper6888]

I really enjoyed collecting the 1987 Fleer set. I am currently working on a 1964 Topps set in PSA 8.

[@Bigbluecollector316]

You should do a Kobe rookie card search or just open up some 90”s nba lots of future hall of famers to get like Kevin garnet Kobe inversion tim duncen just an idea I love the vids 💪🏿

[@KnuckleHead1983]

jesse davis speaking of Kobe after he passed away I remembered I have a grade 10 purple signature skybox rookie that’s now valued at $1,200 on eBay

[@mikerukavina4551]

Have him bust 1996-97 Topps Chrome BOX

[@mikerukavina4551]

Or 03-04 Topps Chrome.

[@djquiksilva]

Brian Matthews ... add me on Instagram CardboardInvestMint I wanna see that Kobe

[@JeremyR76]

I like seeing older stuff opened. Would be cool to see some more basketball besides 19-20.

[@BIGBLUESTUROCKS]

1 Jr. and 2 Randy Johnsons! Good box. Like watching the high end stuff opened. 1 card per box. Also like the topps 70s and early mid 80s. Thanks, and great job on the vids!

[@Swoop187OG187]

C'mon man, no one has ever pulled 10-15 Griffey rookies out of a box unless it was a weird packaging error which I have seen before... I actually opened a box of 1990-91 Topps hockey and all 36 packs were the same, luckly each pack had a Mario Lemieux, Jeremy Roenick RC and a Wayne Gretzky glossy All-Star... I mean they're not worth much but it was a nice pack to get 36 times, lol..... I've opened a few 89 Upper Deck boxes and the most Griffey's I've pulled out of one box was 3 so I was psyched about that... Also got the Dale Murphy Rev Neg, I actually still have that card, lol.... Yea, the 89 Upper Deck set is pretty big so you're not guaranteed anything...

[@calliopivogiatzis2235]

My favorite years for card collecting were probably from the late '60s to the junk wax era.

[@NickyJBayBay]

Pretty sure the Griffey fell in sequence. You could find it by opening one pack and then counting where it should be. I just opened a box of High # and pulled one Griffey along with a few Sheffield and Randy Johnson. Fun times on a great nostalgic box

[@johnbell1555]

I bought a box of these, all the cards were in perfect condition except for the Griffey. It was near perfect except for the foil UD logo on the back of the card.

[@mikerukavina4551]

Isn't Big Unit rookie in this too? I can't remember.

[@MarkfromKy]

Man I remember when I was a kid opening these boxes and Griffey was always hard to pull

[@jewelz6028]

I thought that "Rumor" of Top Left 3rd in was from the bottom. Also another "Rumor" I remember was a full pack of "The Kid" in certain cases. IDK if thats true, but my cousin and I purchased 4 boxes 2 High and 2 Low, from the High we pulled 1 KGJ and the Low we pulled 2, but it was in the same box we pulled the 2 and Guttered the other box.

[@dudebroboys2647]

Phil is the best

[@thebastard3721]

Phil, if you could pitch to any batter throughout the history of baseball , who would it be?

[@alexandert.6933]

The Bastard Probably Miggy

[@drewbravo7432]

As a former Bronx Bomber himself, I hope he'd answer Ruth, Mantle, or Joe D.

[@sourgrapestastesweet6674]

He doesn't answer questions apparently.

[@sourgrapestastesweet6674]

And whoever it was they would take him deep.

[@marcvaillancourtmv]

Love the vids Phil, I also love the fact a major league collects as well. Keep the content flowing brother

[@DonBlomdahlHOF]

Ethan's Elvis Covers & More told me to check you and and thought I would stop by and pay you a visit.

[@lindas4183]

17:22 Wow man. You passed through that Mike Gallego card and did NOT check to see if it was the reverse negative error, lol !!!!

[@michaellambert3624]

I remember every Griffey I pulled (3), it had Phil Stephenson in the pack I think

[@FreddyFind]

congrats on the pull. bummer on the centering.

[@farlow126]

You just brushed past a John Smoltz RC?

[@mikek8718]

Well u got one! That’s good. Thought you’d score at least 2. Nice video!

[@nolejr.8029]

Hahahahahaha awesome Scarface clip

[@deanboyster6143]

Have you watch the documentary call jack of all trades. It talks a lot about Griffey ud rookie

[@DISCOVERSASQUATCH]

i have recently pulled a Shohei auto from a big league box from wal mart ...these are pretty rare to be on cardboard 1 and also I cannot find anyone who has one..no number on card ect...topps certified..curious if you could point me in right direction. ty!! I love the channel it pulled me back into the game

[@Splifftone]

No sleeve on the Smoltzy rookie?

[@LonestarLegendsCards]

Nice box! 1 Jr and 2 Units! 👍🏻

[@bakermob29]

Back in the day I traded my Bo Jackson card I got from a board game (classic baseball I think) that was worth like $50 at the time for a box of 89 donruss. Didn’t get a Griffey. I was so upset.

[@guywilliams6569]

It's crazy that there's so many cards printed but it's not like you hit a bunch of good cards

[@matthewwagner6]

So many missed Seinfeld moments for your editor Phil 😂

[@mattymass]

Matthew Wagner hit me with the suggestions! 😂 been waiting for Seinfeld to come to Netflix

[@Puttingittogetherat45]

Trying to keep it short. Flee market 1991, I put a pack back my brother bought it. Griffey was in it. He needed some $$ for insurance I asked. Still got. Griffey 89 Upper Deck is the card

[@KnuckleHead1983]

Hey what do you think about vlad Guerrero jr and do you think any of his rookies ( base or not) are a good investment?

[@vintageoddballcards6103]

Nice! Bummer on the centering.