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Manufacturer: Donruss
This is a box of the 1990 DONRUSS PUZZLE AND CARDS, still in the box and unsearched. The year was a great one for baseball - names such as Sammy Sosa and Frank Thomas burst upon the scene and Ken Griffey Jr. and Mark McGwire were entering their second year as players.
Some of the cards you may find in these packs now sell for enormous prices! This box includes 36 packs (16 cards and 3 puzzle pieces per pack). Cards for Ryne Sandberg and Carlton Fisk are shown on the box lid.
The set features the CARL YASTRZEMSKI puzzle, RATED ROOKIES and DIAMOND KINGS cards. This box is taped and not sealed, but we're not certain it ever was, early boxes were simply taped to prevent the packs from coming loose. In any case, the packs have never been opened or searched.
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We don't know whose cards are here - we do know you'll have a total of 576 baseball cards in mint condition!
DONRUSS was the first company to obtain a baseball card license after an anti-trust lawsuit broke Topps' card-making stranglehold in 1980. The company produced its first set in 1981.
But within a few years, Donruss had emerged as a must-have product. Its 1984 set is considered the best set of that year and is Donruss' best baseball set ever. The pictorially-appealing set included two previously introduced subsets that would become hallmarks: painted "Diamond Kings" by noted sports artist Dick Perez of Perez-Steele Galleries depicting the best players in the game; and a string of top newcomers designated "Rated Rookies."
Recently acquired by Pinnacle, Donruss didn't release a mainstream set under its own name in 1999, leaving its future as an enduring baseball card brand in doubt. |
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