Tuesday, January 24, 2012

1991 Topps Baseball Featuring Card #338 Luis Rivera


For it's 40th anniversary in 1991, Topps rewarded fans and collectors with a boring, badly overproduced set almost completely lacking in redeeming qualities.  This Luis Rivera card is a truly bad card in a truly bad set.

1991 Score Baseball Featuring Card #837 Randy Kutcher

Almost everything is wrong with this card: The player (a .228 lifetime hitter), the year and company (1991 Score, overproduced junk), and the condition, which is less than stellar  but could be worse.  In spite of all that, this is still probably one of the best of the boring, overproduced sets from the 1988-92 glut period if only for the semi-ambitious design.

1990 Donruss Baseball, Featuring Card #27 Diamond Kings Checklist

We all know how terrible this red-bordered atrocity of an overproduced baseball card set this was, and nothing sums it up quite like the list of players on the "Diamond Kings" checklist. I don't know who is most exciting here. Is it Steve Sax, Dan Gladden, Bryn Smith, Ed Whitson, Jim Deshaies or any of the other decent but not great players who dominate this checklist. Oh but look at the beautiful condition of this card.  PSA 9 all the way.

1991 Donruss Series 2 Featuring Card #442 Mel Hall

Just like series 1, except with a green border instad of blue.  Just like 1988 Donruss, except with a green border instead of blue.  Here we have the legendary Mel Hall in a Yankee uniform. Like most every other card in the set, this card is completely and utterly worthless even for the most rabid Yankees collectors and Mel Hall collectors, of which there are probably about 2 on earth.