1988 Donruss Baseball Forum

How do you tell the difference between a pack card and a factory card?

• The card front border design pattern of the factory set card fronts is oriented differently from that of the regular wax pack cards. No premium or discount exists for either version.

There's a little bit more to it than that. While some of the variations are due to the front border, some are only due to the text write-ups on the back. When comparing the backs you'll notice that some have text on a differing numbering of lines (i.e., one version may have 3 lines of text another may have 4, but the words are the same). Or, if the line numbers are the same, the length may be different. After all the VARS were updated I went back and had 2 tabs open so I could compare side-by-side when entering.

Thank you so much, it was very confusing but I think I can fiqure it out now.

Thanks again, barefoot108@outlook.com

You made it easy thank you so much. Sorry kinda new at this my wife passed and I got back into the card collecting.

Very sorry to hear that. I hope you find a welcoming community here.

I'm sorry for your loss. Welcome back to the site.