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Wrapping up another decade of my collection today as I revisit 1989. That was the year Griffey Junior cards hit the mainstream sets. At this point I was collecting complete sets of Topps, Donruss, Fleer and Score and now I'd added two more sets in Bowman and Upper Deck. It was starting to be a bit much but I liked all the different designs. Here are nine cards from my collection all from 1989.

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1989 Bowman Reprint Inserts Tiffany #5 Mickey Mantle '51 (Topps brought the Bowman brand back after a 34 year absence and in addition to the base set, they produced a parallel Tiffany set. The set also included an 11-card reprint set of classic reprint cards. I have a few of the Tiffany reprints including these Mantles.)
1989 Bowman Reprint Inserts Tiffany #6 Mickey Mantle '53
1989 Fleer #616A Bill Ripken ERR/Rick Face written/on knob of bat (Cal Ripken has made many appearances on my thread, but today it's his brother making an appearance. Probably one of the most controversial cards to ever have been issued in the modern era. I blurred the offensive word on the bat and ran it by floydtown prior to posting. I also own the black box version and the scribble version and there are many other versions of this card too but this is the original in all of it's infamous glory.)

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1989 Score Young Superstars II #18 Ken Griffey Jr.
1989 Topps Baseball Talk/LJN #70 Nolan Ryan (This oversize card includes a specially recorded baseball program on the back that can be played on a record player. The card was produced by Topps for LJN Toys.)
1989 Topps Batting Leaders #3 Don Mattingly (A cool 1989 Topps insert of the Hit Man.)

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1989 Topps Traded #41T Ken Griffey Jr. RC
1989 Upper Deck #1 Ken Griffey Jr. RC
1989 Upper Deck #25 Randy Johnson RC