I remember back in the day skipping over Upper Deck because a pack of Upper Deck was just more expensive than, say Topps. I was a thinking kid. Why pay more for the same amount of cards? I had the same thinking about Fleer.
Anyway, by the time I decided to try a pack, the local card shop was out. But this shop in Cooperstown in 2010 had a box, so I grabbed a pack, figuring I'd see what this new 1989 "Upper Deck" thing was all about.
Before anyone asks. No, I didn't get a Griffey. I did get another player with an Upper Deck rookie designation, the great Mike Harkey. Harkey actually gets me into the main thing I'm looking for in these packs, players who were in the CMC set or other, however tangential, connections to players in the set.
Being a set from 1989, the year before the CMC set came out, there should be several set members in the 1989 Upper Deck set. I didn't get any of them in this pack.

The back of Harkey's card doesn't reference college. It just references a quick rise through the minors to Chicago, including a one-hitter in his second start at AAA Iowa.


Elsewhere, no Hall of Famers came out of the pack. There was even a double in the pack, two Cory Snyders.


The other card is, of course, Edgar Martinez, whom I recently wrote about. But, just in case there was confusion, I picked up the below card, just in case. Covering my bases, and all.
439 - Tino Martinez, Quality Player, 10/9/10
439 - Edgar Martinez, Greatest DH, 10/8/10
555 - Larry Casian, Collegiate Competition, 5/1/10
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