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🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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0:00.0 | You want to hear the story about how I first became aware of Ken Griffey, Jr. |
0:07.0 | Oh my gosh, I'd love to, man. I'd love to. |
0:09.0 | So, 1989 is Ken's rookie year at Major League level. |
0:14.0 | I am 15 years old, and I'm in Kansas City, and I am obsessed with baseball cards. |
0:21.0 | I will ride my bike down the street to the baseball card shop, which was called the press box. |
0:28.0 | It really did become sort of an unhealthy obsession. |
0:31.0 | I would like collect all of these cards. |
0:35.0 | And it went from being something that I really enjoyed to, like, I was going to become this investor. |
0:41.0 | I would take the money. |
0:42.0 | You're an entrepreneur, I love it. |
0:44.0 | I would take the money I made mowing lawns and buy baseball cards. |
0:50.0 | And I remembered the very first time I saw the Ken Griffey Jr. upper deck card in 1989. |
0:57.0 | And it was just sort of like, you know, is that Ken Sun? |
1:02.0 | I was told, yes. |
1:04.0 | And by the way, he was the number one overall pick. |
1:07.0 | And by the way, he's going to be the next big thing in the sport of baseball. |
1:13.0 | And he was card number one in the upper deck series. |
1:17.0 | And for whatever reason, there were so many different types of baseball cards then. |
1:24.0 | That card stood out even at the time. |
1:29.0 | And over the years, it would even more, it seems like it became this iconic example of the baseball card industry. |
1:37.0 | And all of my friends, we wanted to not just have one of those cards, we had a bunch of them. |
1:45.0 | And the sort of obsession, even as Ken got off to that rookie season start that he did. |
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