Random Card of the Day

I still like the design of the 1990 Fleer set. I liked it then and I like it now. It seemed like an even better design when the 1991 Fleer yellow set was released. The 1993 Fleer set is probably my favorite from that era, but the '90 set was so much better than anything before it (as far as Fleer goes). The design is simple and has everything you should need for a set of cards (front and back).

I wish modern cards would get back to showing the year, team, position and player name all on the front AND full stats on the back! If Topps (and in other sports: Panini, UD, ITG, etc.) could get back to the basics of telling us what we want to know when looking at a card, the hobby would be much better for the addition of info on cards.

As much as this set has all the elements that everyone loves, this set is still my absolute least favorite set from 1978-1992 (all companies included). Topps was doing the 3-D thing back in 1988, so this wasn't a "new" concept anymore. It was printed on the cheapest card stock ever (even more flimsy than Star Co), on par with the 1981 Donruss. If you take a stack of these, and line up the bottom edge of the cards, the top edges will not line up. They are all different sizes. And they even misspelled the last name of one the top 5 players of the day (Ripkin? Really??). Terrible terrrible set. I give Donruss a pass on the 1981 set as they were in a rush to get that set out after the lawsuit, but this was Fleer's 10th offering for baseball. There is no excuse for this. Maybe my disappointment in this set is because I thought the Fleer sets the previous 9 years were so good (except 1982, not so good, but still not as bad as 1990).