This card is one of my favorites. The 1995 Pinnacle set features a "Museum Collection" subset with a real gem. The Ken Griffey, Jr. card shows him blowing a huge bubble with what must have been an entire sack of Big League Chew. "The Kid" was one of the biggest names in the sport at the time which just added to the excitement kids had as they poured through packs trying to find a copy of this card for themselves.
I'm not sure of the intent, but it seems like it was probably a throwback to a classic card put out by Topps in 1976 featuring Kurt Bevacqua winning the 1975 Joe Garagiola/Bazooka Bubble Gum Blowing Championship. This card surely helped ice him as a cult favorite player, though he always finds himself in the spotlight one way or another. He later furthered his own storied baseball career by being "the guy that missed second base" in Game 2 of the 1984 World Series when he hit a home run for the Padres and when he made a cameo appearance on the animated Fox comedy "King of the Hill".
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