Have you visited our store? Click here.Agenda Summary: Juan Soto HR. Gleyber Torres and the Yankees. Rafael Palmeiro (53) hits HR. Derek Jeter 1993 SP sale. Original Polaroid used on 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. RC. Blowout Bounties.
Guest: Ryan Daly
Full Agenda:
Juan Soto hits HR on 1st Pitch of Career at just 19 years old.
Gleyber Torres gets groomed for success with the New York Yankees.
Rafael Palmeiro (53) hits HR with Cleburne Railroaders, an American Association independent team from Texas. First HR since July 30, 2005 (last HR as a pro).1
PSA 10 Example of the 1993 SP Derek Jeter closed on On May 16, 2018 with 148 bids at $99,100.
Original Polaroid used for the 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. sells for $13,887.60.2
Blowout Cards offers $25k bounty on each of the two Shohei Ohtani cards: Red Ref. AU /5 and Blue AU with Kanji signature. The Red AU sells on the open market for nearly $35k.3
To see the current eBay auctions for the 1993 SP Derek Jeter, click here.
References:
- Rafael Palmeiro, 53, smacks his first home run for independent league baseball team. www.usatoday.com ↩︎
- Auction Result. memorylaneinc.com ↩︎
- BlowoutCards.com now offering $25,000 for two other types of Shohei Ohtani autos atop $100,000 Superfractor offer. www.blowoutcards.com/blog ↩︎
Couple things…
Satchel Paige was the oldest player to suit up and play an MLB game at 59 years old.
The $14K Griffey Polaroid, BTW is already being scrutinized as possibly being misrepresented at auction. The cropping of the photo and what appears on the card is just… Off. Plus, Poloroids were not used in making the card. The original owner (former big wig at Upper Deck Tom Geideman) has even admitted that it is nothing more than a picture of the original picture. (See the comments section on the link below.)
https://www.beckett.com/news/1989-upper-deck-ken-griffey-jr-polaroid/
RE: Satchel Paige.
Yep! We actually conversed about this in the original cut but it didn’t make the final edit because Paige’s final year, 1965 (in which he was actually 58), he sat for one game and pitched for just three innings.
RE: Griffey Polaroid.
I’ve actually thought about this very issue. However, and Ryan Cracknell linked to this article in his comments section, this SI article makes mention that this polaroid is, in fact, the original and authentic photo for the card. https://on.si.com/2xsvM2J
Thank you for reading and commenting.
Unless Upper Deck drew the top of Griffey’s chest and some sky above his head, there is NO WAY this Polaroid was used to create the card. In fact, an exact quote from Tom Geideman says: “This Polaroid was taken by me using a small machine that took Polaroid images of actual slides. This Polaroid was taken of the original unaltered slide that was used for the ’89 Griffey rookie card image. Since the Polaroid film was a different size than the actual slide (I believe using Fuji flim) the bottom portion of the actual image isn’t included in the Polaroid (flim being more rectangular and the Polaroid more squarish). The full image that was used on the Griffey Jr. rookie card was pretty much cropped by the photographer (VJ Lovero) in his lens and little, if any, alteration to the dimensions was done at Upper Deck.” The original owner says that it is a picture of a picture, and not an original photo.
That sounds like a plausible scenario; it makes sense. Given the backstory and who’s handled it, however, the Polaroid is still be a significant piece of hobby history.
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