My Farewell To Upper Deck Baseball
With Upper Deck’s future as a company in jeopardy and its exclusion from the baseball card industry all but guaranteed, 2010 Upper Deck Series 1 Baseball could very well be the last baseball card product ever produced by the once mighty manufacturer. This could very easily end up contributing to the collectibility of it, but that’s not why I decided to buy a box. No, this purchase was made so that I could have a farewell box break with Upper Deck Baseball. Hopefully this wasn’t the final goodbye but things aren’t looking good like I said before.
The reason I felt compelled to do this is that Upper Deck’s baseball card product line was what got me into the hobby in the first place. They are not why I’ve stayed though – that can be attributed more to Topps then anyone else – but without the 1989 Upper Deck Set I very easily could have never been drawn into the hobby that I’ve grown to love so much.
So farewell Upper Deck – you will always have a place in the baseball card industry as far as I’m concerned, but if you do return, do so with integrity (and a new CEO).
My parting break was rather disappointing, though I liked to overall set OK.
Some nice base cards were had but the hits left a lot to be desired. It felt like Upper Deck used the set as a way to clear out all their leftover MLB autographs and game used memorabilia swatches – which I certainly wouldn’t put past them, especially considering the fact that players have been instructed by MLB not to sign anymore autographs for the company.
