1991 Donruss Baseball Forum

Seems like you finally got the info Dan. I'm glad for you b/c I know that's been driving you crazy. It was irritating me a bit after you brought it to my attention.

Yes, I'm simply waiting for "The Call" to be made by Admin as I armed him with the info to decide how the checklist (or checklists) should be. As soon as I hear back from him, I can format the file(s) to conform to the preferred method, and get this one put to bed. Finally!

Just in time.......'87 Donruss down including Leaf/Donruss set....so I'll  get the '91s ready.

And word has been passed along. I have a tall task ahead of me. I hope to have it all sorted out and up very soon.

What was the final word? Do the border variations exist for all cards or just a subset of the total set? I actually came across another one of these in my collection just last night after knowing for awhile that I had both Ozzie Smith variations.

There is something like 14 cards that have the same border in packs as well as the FS.

I'm not ready to jump in with "guns a blazin" . Best to wait for Dan to do his thing.

However, What are we looking at: 2 Different Factory Sets and a Packed out Set. [3 sets in all?]?

Quick summary:

Of the 770 cards in the set, most cards have THREE versions.

We'll call them:

• Retail Border with INC (no dot) on back (These will be ###[a])
• Retail Border with INC. (dot) on back (These will be ###[b])
• Hobby Factory Set (HFS) border (These will be ###[c])

The retail factory set that I busted simply had the same front borders as as the cards that were in packs.

Now, the exceptions:

There are 9 checklist cards (the DK checklist has INC/INC. versions) do not have copyright info, so no INC/INC. versions. These will be simply listed as the [a] version. The HFS border differences will be the [c] version. There will be no [b] versions for the non-DK checklists. This is to keep all the HFS set borders as the [c] versions. Admin liked this idea and supports it.

There are 14 cards in the HFS that do not have a different border than the Retail. These 14 will have no [c] version.

Yes, these will all be listed as one VERY large set listing. Due to the fact that there is no single complete "parallel" set, we did not feel comfortable trying to determine what would then constitute a set. This way, for you "basic set" builders, it won't matter which version you have, the system will be able to tell you if you have 1 of each card number. And for you "master set" builders, you will have 2287 cards to chase to get the master set! 

I still have an import file to build, and I am waiting now on Admin to do some en masse edits to the set (I already did many earlier). I need him to do them before I upload the additions, and then we'll need him to do some "backgroung magic" with the upload to get them sorted right.

Thanks to ALL who helped, offered help, and have contributed to this. We're almost there.

Does this set precedent in any way how other parallel sets ought to be entered?

So what you are telling me is that for 1991 I have 2 larger master sets to build now???? I didn't forget about our favorite Topps friends. Why do I have to be so OCD about completionism!!!! I just got a 88D HC set on the cheap just to try and do that one.