Rare Griffey

[tpeichel]

Back in the early 1990s when I first started dabbling in trading cards, I would buy Mike Schmidt’s at Minnesota cards shows and sell or trade them in Philadelphia. I mostly picked up oddball stuff, but dabbled in some rookies.

I decided to send some Tiffany’s and rookies to PSA with horrible results. Mostly low grades and rejects. That was the first and only time.

I recently ran across a PSA rejected 1989 Griffey Upper Deck that I have had for nearly 30 years.

I bet if I put this on my Griffey list as a variation, someone would buy it.

 

[banjar]

Haha! That's hilarious. PSA actually used to look for signs of trimming!

 

[tpeichel]

Those four corners are sharp too!

 

[tpeichel]

Additional sadness from my PSA submission, two rejected Ripken rookies.

 

[banjar]

Were you going crazy with the ol' xacto knife in those days?

 

[tpeichel]

Were you going crazy with the ol' xacto knife in those days?

Ha ha, just trading excess Mike Schmidt’s for stuff I thought I could sell. Apparently some dealers were not on the up and up and I learned grading is not in my wheelhouse.