Card Number 69

[BeefMaster]

Found this in an old Slate article about the 1989 Griffey Upper Deck rookie card.  They mentioned that there was a specific employee at Upper Deck whose job was to pick which players got which card numbers, and it included this gem that mentioned a couple of RBIers:

Using an issue of Baseball America as his guide, Geideman knew that card No. 1 would belong to Gregg Jefferies, Sandy Alomar Jr., Gary Sheffield, or a long-shot candidate, the phenom they called "The Kid." It's probably the most thinking Geideman ever did compiling a checklist, save for the 1992 Upper Deck set when he assigned numbers that ended in 69 to players with porn-star-sounding names. (Dick Schofield at No. 269, Heathcliff Slocumb at No. 569, and Dickie Thon at No. 769.)

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