3. No one was too excited by the putrid Atlanta Braves teams of the era, but Glavine, at least, gave a glimmer of hope, with scouting reports that pegged him as a potential future rotation piece. (Check out our full series of posts on the history of Donruss baseball cards.). Best part of junk wax now is that you can get cool cards dirt cheap. Shortcuts: 2009 Donruss Elite. Coming off a 1980 season in which he finished runner-up for the AL MVP award, New York Yankees right fielder Reggie Jackson looked to keep the momentum going in 1981. Check prices on eBay (affiliate link) Get the best deals on Donruss Baseball Trading Cards when you shop the largest online selection at eBay.com. By entering your email address you agree to receive email versions of the Baseball Card Market Report. Today, demand remains high and the value of this card has steadily risen in recent years. After fifteen-straight All-Star appearances from 1965-79, Yastrzemski was left out of the Midsummer Classic for the second year in a row in 1981. In 1980, Fleer won an antitrust lawsuit against Topps, forcing the Brooklyn card manufacturer to pay the princely sum of $1 tough to withstand, for sure but also opening the door for Fleer to produce baseball cards of active players in 1981. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network and Amazon Associates. | Compare vs. Depending on how you look at things through traditional or SABRose-colored glasses Don Mattingly recorded his last truly great season in either 1986 or 1987. He hit .170 in a cup of coffee with Expos in 1989, then just .241 as a rookie in 1990, after all. This final Donruss-with-the-Astros-while-he-pitched-for-the-Astros card of The Ryan Express generally sells for $15-25 in PSA 10. But here in this wad of gaud set, Kirby shows up by virtue of the same error-correct All-Star back combination that befell Cal Ripken. After another four years of up-and-down minor/Major-league action, Leiter finally stuck in Toronto in 1993, just in time for the Jays second World Series title. 20 Most Valuable 1990 Donruss Baseball Cards - Old Sports Cards Accolades aside, Schmidt felt his best accomplishment was in one of the few offensive categories in which he didn't pace the Majors: batting average. 4. Clearly the guy knew how to pitch and his success eventually landed him a spot in the Hall of Fame. Rose hit .300 (6-for-20) with two RBI and a run scored in the losing effort. Yes, the checklist is quite messy at times with the errors and variations. The problem was, there just werent any of the usual big sluggers or power pitchers Eric Davis, Mark McGwire, Jose Canseco, Roger Clemens, Dwight Gooden to stoke our interest, so we latched onto other types. Rookie Cards were so valuable to collectors in 1989, that if Oprah had been involved in baseball cards, she would have been saying . Well, the dude filled out (no one was happy about that, either), found his power, turned the Bucs and Giants into winners, became a legend. While not nearly as valuable as the Griffey Jr. rookie, Johnson's rookie still holds respectable value in top grade. Like Ryan, you can be sure that any Griffey card will pop up on a list like this for whichever set it belongs to. Browse Donruss Baseball Card Sets Below is a list of Donruss Baseball Card Sets with Cards . San Bernardino Spirit card is the most valuable Ken Griffey Jr. minor league . Now that we got that out of the way, let's take a look at the top ten: This card was one of the hottest in my circle of collecting friends when this card was first released. And, yes, it would've been nice to see rookie cards of Fernando Valenzuela, Harold Baines and Kirk Gibson as well. However, Schmidt led baseball in multiple offensive categories, including home runs (31), RBI (91), OBP (.435), slugging percentage (.644), OPS (1.080), OPS+ (198), and total bases (228). Thats what happened here, where we get the King of Kings painting with a 5000K back. And, though his movie-star profile may have rankled some, Justice spoke loudest with his bat, the same one that cranked 28 home runs on his way to the 1990 N.L. Oh, along the way, he also posted maybe his greatest all-around season on his way to Cooperstown, copping American League MVP honors in 1990.
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