
Ken Griffey Jr.
1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. Star Rookie
- Set
- Upper Deck
- Year
- 1989
- Number
- 1
- Grade
- PSA 10
- Cert number
- 27702595
- Variant
- Star Rookie
- Parallel
- Star Rookie
- Manufacturer
- Upper Deck
- Sport
- baseball
- Owner
- CatchBack Vaults
- Pack pool
- Available in packs
Goes with this
No honest pairing for Ken Griffey Jr.: nothing we hold shares a set run, an evolution line, a grade ladder or a player with it inside $1,300-$16,250. Better to buy it on its own than to bolt on an unrelated slab.
Buy it outright. Ken Griffey Jr. is $6,500 on the marketplace. Its best pack route is the Hall of Fame Pack at $1,000, where it sits in the $4,000-$6,500 band — that band hits 5.00% of the time and we count 2 cards in it, so this one slab is at most a 2.500% pull. That works out to 40 packs, or about $40,000, to land this specific card — and that is the optimistic end, because the real pool is larger than the 2 cards we can see. Packs are the wrong tool for a named card.
| Tier | Ticket | Band | Band odds | Expected spend for this card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hall of Fame Pack | $1,000 | the $4,000-$6,500 band | 5.00% | $40,000+ |
Per-card chance = band probability / cards counted in that band's pool. Our pool data is a sample, so the per-card chance is an upper bound and the expected spend is a lower bound.






