Officials Confirm Existence of Ken Griffey Jr. Short Printed Variations in 2009 Upper Deck Series 2 Baseball
Collectors began noticing something different as they put together their sets of 2009 Upper Deck Series 2 Baseball sets: not every version of card #855 of Ken Griffey Jr. looked the same. Late Wednesday Upper Deck confirmed that they have produced 20 different versions of Griffey’s base card depicting Junior during every year of his MLB career. The images, stats and text on the back of the card correspond directly to the year that’s featured.
“It’s important for us to continue to look at ways to make the regular base card interesting to collectors,” said Gabriel Garcia, Upper Deck’s associate baseball brand manager. “By creating different versions of Griffey’s card to commemorate his illustrious career, we hope to have people go back through their collections to see which versions they have and to hopefully put together the entire 20-card set. Since we did not announce this, it’s been interesting to see how quickly collectors picked up on it and how well some of these cards have been selling in the secondary market.”
While no version is more limited than another, the cards are limited in nature and should be considered short prints.
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