1990 Donruss Baseball Forum

I have seen this variation listed elsewhere but it isnt listed here.  I actually pulled both of these from the same box tonight.  I have other examples of this variation from other sources as well.  for whatever reason many of them did have a single decimal for piece 43 in the set of non decimal pieces i see this as a true variation.  it isnt a splotch or anything it is a square decimal like Donruss used in the group that has decimals.  I apologize my scanner sucks.  I am posting this for vroomed to see.

I just sorted this puzzle set this past week and I have that exact same piece with one decimal. I thought I had the complete set, but now I'm questioning that. I'm flying home today and I have some more pieces at home that I can sift through to see if there is in fact three distinct pieces, and then if that means a third distinct variation of the puzzle.

For my purposes I just want the piece to fit so I can put it together to display in my office alongside the Clemente.

I was going to do same thing. My youngest (8 yo) likes puzzles  and thought I would do the same  except I do not have the Puzzles  and I wonder if pieces are interchangable. I know the 1982 one you can not assemble but 1983 and over next threw years Donruss outsoursed it to someone that could.  The problem was the pieces fit  but the picture was off.

Let's get this straight > You are suggesting the following:

1. No decimal piece

2. Normal round decimal piece

3.  and a square decimal piece?

Possibly making 3 variation puzzles?

I'll check, I have lotsa Donruss Puzzle pieces.

I have card 37, 38, 39 from the Yastrzemski puzzle, with "no" decimal on any of the pieces. Is this a complete set variation, or is it just sporadic on a few individual cards?

Before any others post anything without looking at our listings, we have 2 distinct Yaz sets:

Puzzle with the decimals - https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/76428/1990-Donruss---Carl-Yastrzemski-Puzzle

Puzzle without - https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/99039/1990-Donruss---Carl-Yastrzemski-Puzzle-(No-Decimals)

What we do not have listed are any pieces with "some but not all" decimals.

OK, I know about the set with decimals and without decimals. I have both. I misunderstood the original post, I thought it was different decimals - round and square. The question was can decimals and no decimals be mixed on the same 3-piece card. Don't know, would need to check. However, it wouldn't be difficult to falsify these just like unscruples do with Fleer Stickers.

The example I have only has one decimal. I have a bunch of both and have logged them as such. I'm at the airport about to board...I'll check when I can this weekend. 

There is an all decimal set, a no decimal set, one card with a variation in the decimal free set which i posted above.  Does that help?

This helps a lot. (My post earlier was don in a rush as I was heading out the door for a good chunk of the day and I was seeing the replies straying from the true topic).

The question I have now is the source of the variations. So it looks like the no decimals come from the packs, while the "full-on" decimals come from ???? where?

Right now, I'd be inclined to add this variant to the non-decimal set since it came in packs with non-decimal cards.

I just checked a couple areas here - I have some loose puzzle cards that are actually grouped by player (I think my sone did that about 8 years ago) and I found I have both varieties (full decimal, or full no-decimal). I opened a ton of packs that year, and I did not open (or buy) a factory set that year. So, I'm thinking they may have all come from packs. This may be a case where these should all just be VARs of each other.