1989 Donruss Baseball Forum

Looking for progress on this before proceeding.

Four days, no responses, so I'm proceeding.

We will make the current cards in the set the "a" versions (VAR: "© 1988 LEAF, INC." & "* Denotes" on back). You will see them getting the VAR in Note, and "VAR: "© 1988 LEAF, INC." & "* Denotes" on back" in Note2. Additionally, the numbers will get the "a" in the extra field.

At some point tomorrow (Tuesday, 6/9/2020), I will upload the VERIFIED variations. They will start out with the letters in the numbers, but Admin will run a special procedure that will re-sort them into order and pull those "b/c/d"s out of the number and put them in the extra field. Everyone with cards in their collections, want lists, and FS/FT lists should get an e-mail from SiteAlerts with some details about the change here and what course of action they might want to take.

Also of note, we will be keeping the variations to a specific letter. What that means is there is a card where it exists in versions a, b, & d, but not verified in "c" will look like it's missing the "c" version, but that was approved. (That is only the one card, #542 - Ken Caminiti.) There are several in version "d" that were never verified.

And just as a reminder to what the 4 variations are, and the order they will be in the set:

[a] - VAR: "© 1988 LEAF, INC." and "* Denotes Led League" on back  - (dot, 1 *)
[b] - VAR: "© 1988 LEAF, INC." and "* Denotes * Led League" on back - (dot, 2 *)
[c] - VAR: "© 1988 LEAF, INC" and "* Denotes Led League" on back - (no dot, 1 *)
[d] - VAR: "© 1988 LEAF, INC" and "* Denotes * Led League" on back - (no dot, 2 *)

All of [a] & [b] cards were found and verified. All but 1 of [c] version (the aforementioned Caminiti) and all but 31 of the [d] version was verified.

Sorry, but 4 days wasn't enough time to sort all the cards. I will keep the sort going however.

Actually, Bob, it was a little more than 2 weeks since you said you'd start looking (your post was on May 25th). It's been 4 days since I asked if there had been any progress from anyone with no response. The set will be updated tomorrow based solely on the information we have verified. No "guesses" here.

BOBSCARDZ wrote:

Sorry, but 4 days wasn't enough time to sort all the cards. I will keep the sort going however.

Hello Dan-

I would suggest your explanation of the a,b,c,d changes that was worded so clearly , be put in the notes or trivia for this set as well, to be used down the line when folks ask questions about the set...

thanks for all of everyone's time on this set.

I personally do not chase the variations, but appreciate having the tools to do so for the collectors who like that...

mark

Woo-Hoo! Thanks, Dan! Though I don't chase these types of VARs, either, I have mine already separated to trade to those that do. Can't wait for the change to hit.

Yes, I was planning to add it wherever Admin prefers. Him and I will be in touch more about this over the next day or so. I'm glad you found it well-written and clear. I try!

Well, sounds good......I'm only 49,000 cards away from sorting, listing, trading or anything else with this set. However, they are all nicely sorted by number in most boxes, just not a,b,c,d sorted. Saving the unsorted boxes until the end. 

Thank you for all your hard work Dan! And everyone else who helped with this set! 

Thanks for doing this Dan!  Not that I chase these, but I will note them when I am putting these in.  It will be a big help for anyone that trades these.....(is there any one that ACTUALLY needs any of these????? :D )

I would assume that if the 30+ cards that we didn't verify do turn up they could be added down the road.....