That is the intent though it would have been easier had they all been verified before the work in editting the checklist began. I believe each card other than the DK, CL and the 3 special cards exist in all 4 VAR but those that Dan kept asking about have yet to be confirmed.  

After Dan revises the checklist, the next step is inserting images.  I have already scanned my FS with the ". and 1*" and have begun uploading images (so far up to 105).  I am saving the front images to upload in the other VAR (the front image doesn't change from VAR to VAR) and will begin scanning all the VAR that I have for the other 3 versions once I am done.  I don't have all of them other than in the (. and 2*) so feel free to beat me to the punch and get as many back images uploaded as you can.  These will all have the microscope zoom capability so seeing the VAR will be easy.  Some day, we need to think about doing this for the 1991 Donruss set as 5 cards remain in question.

That is the plan - if they are discovered to exist, we'll add them at that time. We will only add them when thay have been visually verified.

FS with the ". and 1*"

I asked that question before, about ALL FS being the same. That helps, then I'm not looking for any of these being all FS cards.

This was said way back on Page 3 of this thread.

Checklist has JUST been updated. Admin will need to re-sort the set and move the "b", "c", and "d" out of the number and put it in the "extra" field. (Please do not do this manually for any cards as this may mess up Admin's procedure!)

Please feel free to start updating collection info.

Please only add scans of cards you have and please only use large clean images (do NOT recycle the images already here!).

I have requested that Admin send a message to all members who have a card from this set in their collection somewhere (collection. want list, or FS/FT list). I am going to add that message right here as well.

Hi,

You have been identified and someone with at least 1 card in your collection, want list, or the for sale/for trade list for the 1989 Donruss baseball set. Approximately 10 years ago, a member noted that there are potentially 4 versions of each "standard" card. (Cards affected will be detailed later.) One of the challenges was identifying which cards had which versions. Several members of the TCDB community pooled their efforts (in a true crowd-sourcing moment) and verified the existence of most of the cards. This message is to serve as a notice that all known versions of the cards have now been added to the checklist.

The 36 cards that are not affected are the 26 Diamond Kings cards, the 7 checklist cards (although checklist card #600 has its own, unrelated variations previously documented here), the 2 "Award Winner" cards, and the Warren Spahn "puzzle" card. That leaves 624 of the 660-card affected.

The variations occur on the backs of the cards. The copyright info has "LEAF INC" (no period after INC) or it has "LEAF INC." (with a period after INC). Also, in the statistics header, cards can be found with " * Denotes " (1 asterisk) or with " * Denotes * " (2 asterisks). This amounts to 4 variations, which have been limited to these versions:

[a] - VAR: "© 1988 LEAF, INC." & "* Denotes" on back
[b] - VAR: "© 1988 LEAF, INC." & "* Denotes *" on back
[c] - VAR: "© 1988 LEAF, INC" & "* Denotes" on back
[d] - VAR: "© 1988 LEAF, INC" & "* Denotes *" on back

The assembled team of members verified all 624 cards in versions [a] & [b]. 623 of the cards were verified in version [c] (the missing card being #542 - Ken Caminiti), and 593 of version [d] were verified. (Of note is that #542 was verified in version [d], so #542 will have only the [a], [b], & [d] versions, without a [c] version - at least until someone is able to provide visual proof of its existence.) The checklist that was already in the database was converted over to version [a].

If you have one of the cards that was not previously visually verified by the team, please add a message to the forum thread which is located here. One of the members of the team will contact you for photos or scans.

Due to this addition to the checklist, your collection info was defaulted over to being all version [a]. You will probably need to update your collection information to reflect what you truly have.

Thank you for your patience with this, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

BC- set also done the same way.

BC-8[d] Andre Dawson was never verified.

While '89 Donruss is hot is there a plan to do something with the Grand Slammers variations (1990 too, Dan...).? There are 5 complete different colored sets that do not have the 2 black lines on the backs that I can verify. There are some cards in the purple and purple/red that do have the 2 black lines on the backs. I know there are images in the database of the other 3 colors showing a back image with the lines but I don't think they are from the same card. I do not think there are dot variations with these either.

Simple task compared to the base set.

Sounds like you just volunteered to head that project....

Also, should the Grandslammers be 1 set? I think it should based on the direction Admin has been going in.

It's 5 now. I think 1 set with the color variations is more in line with the database. I was contacted by Griffey423 about these and he said he had a some from a factory set which were purple and the red/purple all with the 2 black lines. It may turn out that only 12 cards were printed with the black lines in the FS run.