Ken Griffey Jr. Recreates 26-Year-Old Rookie Card in Macklemore Video

Seattle's greatest player turns back the clock to 1989.

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Macklemore has never been shy about his fandom forthe Seattle sports scene and his newest video (linked below) is no exception. In it (around the 1:42 mark) soon-to-be-Hall-of-Famer/greatest player in Mariners history Ken Griffey Jr. makes a brief cameo where he catches a fish and (more importantly) recreates his famous 1989 Upper Deck rookie card. It's a dose of don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it nostalgia that takes us back to a time when kids/collectors scraped their dough together to buy utterly pointless pictures and stats printed onto cardboard.

But that was a long time ago. In case you're more of a visual learner, here's an image to contrast with the one above:

Oh, man...

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