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Mike Cramer, the founder of Pacific Trading Cards, began collecting baseball cards at nine years old. [1] His first card was a Babe Ruth card from a nickel pack of Fleer 1960 All-Time Greats cards. [1] He began selling soda bottles and mowing lawns so that he could buy more cards, collecting over 11,000 cards by the time he was eleven years old ...
The 1990 Pro Set American football card release has several errors and variations. Due to a contractual dispute, the Pro Bowl card of Eric Dickerson (No. 338) was withdrawn early creating a short print.
Once again, "Baseball's Best" was sold in big-box stores as a complete factory set. Notable card in this set is Sammy Sosa, Donruss was the only company to release a licensed major league baseball card of him in 1989. Donruss would not produce a "Baseball's Best" set again until 2001.
January 1 – Carmen Hill, 94, pitcher for three National League teams from 1915 through 1930, who won 22 games in 1927 for the league-champion Pittsburgh Pirates. January 2 – Bill Beckmann, 82, pitcher who posted a 21–25 record with a 4.79 ERA in 90 games for the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals from 1939 through 1942.
In the 1989 Upper Deck baseball set, Ken Griffey Jr. was selected to be featured on card number one. [28] The decision to make Griffey Jr. the first card was reached in late 1988. A teenage employee named Tom Geideman was the one who suggested the use of Griffey as its choice for the number-one card. [29]
The Griffeys set the standard more than 30 years ago, when they became teammates on the Seattle Mariners in 1990. For Ken Griffey Jr. — who ranks seventh all-time on the MLB home run list ...