1990 Donruss Blue/White Test

[tunahead]

Well I was finally able to finish the checklist for this set. The set was printed using 2 different 132 card sheets, which would give 264 cards, but 4 of the cards have the same player on both sides and end up getting double printed in the Test set. The sheets used in the Blue/White Test also include all 50 of the double printed cards from the regular set, causing 32 other cards to be double printed in the Test set, for a total of 36. So in actuality there are 228 cards for this set. Every card does have an inverse of itself, as in: Nolan Ryan (King of Kings) / Ozzie Guillen (DK) can be found with Ryan on the Blue side with Guillen on the White side, as well as vice versa, Guillen on the blue and Ryan on the white.

I feel that there are probably only about 3 copies of each card that exist, which would mean that 6 copies of each of the double prints would exist.

If you use this checklist on your site, it would be nice if I could get some credit for developing this checklist... I've been working on it for awhile!

 

[tunahead]

[h=3]1990 Donruss Blue/White Test[/h]Total verified cards: 228
Total verified unique card numbers: 213
Number of verified unique player pairs: 116
Number of player pairs that have a verified inverse: 112 (4 cards have the same player front and back)
Number of cards that have the same player on the front and back: 4
Number of cards that are double printed: 36
Number of the 50 Double Print cards from regular 1990 Donruss set present: 50

Blue #	Blue Side	White Side	White #	Notes
7	Jim Deshaies (DK)	Mark Thurmond	612	Double Print
8	John Smoltz (DK)	Alex Sanchez (RR) *White DP*	45
10	Brian Downing (DK)	Alex Sanchez (RR) *White DP*	45
15	Ozzie Guillen (DK)	Nolan Ryan (King of Kings)	665
21	Tommy Herr (DK)	Pat Combs (RR)	44	Double Print
26	Ed Whitson (DK) *Blue DP*	Joe Oliver	586
26	Ed Whitson (DK) *Blue DP*	Dave Justice	704
27	Checklist (DK)	Vance Law	629	Double Print
44	Pat Combs (RR)	Tommy Herr (DK)	21	Double Print
45	Alex Sanchez (RR) *Blue DP*	John Smoltz (DK)	8
45	Alex Sanchez (RR) *Blue DP*	Brian Downing (DK)	10
46	Kelly Mann (RR)	Checklist (538-585)	600	Double Print
47	Julio Machado (RR) *Blue DP*	Mike Witt	580
47	Julio Machado (RR) *Blue DP*	Bart Giamatti	716
500	Checklist (436-483)	Rick Leach	613	Double Print
521	Mike Jeffcoat	Jeff Huson	693
522	Mike Harkey	Curt Ford	694
523	Andy Nezelek	Eric Davis (AS)	695
524	Dave Schmidt	Tom Filer	687
525	Tony Armas	Steve Lombardozzi	688
526	Barry Lyons	Bernie Williams	689
527	Rick Reed	Chip Hale	690
528	Jerry Reuss	Beau Allred	691
529	Dean Palmer	Ryne Sandberg (AS)	692
530	Jeff Peterek	Tom Lawless	681
531	Carlos Martinez	Xavier Hernandez	682
532	Atlee Hammaker	Mariano Duncan	684
533	Mike Brumley	Ramon Martinez	685
534	Terry Leach	Tim Jones	686
535	Doug Strange	Ken Phelps	675
536	Jose Deleon	Cal Ripken (AS)	676
537	Shane Rawley	Denny Walling	677
538	Joey Cora	Goose Gossage	678
539	Eric Hetzel	Gary Mielke	679
540	Gene Nelson	Bill Bathe	680
541	Wes Gardner	Todd Stottlemyre	669
542	Mark Portugal	Tim Leary	670
543	Al Leiter	John Wetteland	671
544	Jack Armstrong	Calvin Schiraldi	672
545	Greg Cadaret	Ruben Sierra (AS)	673
546	Rod Nichols	Pedro Guerrero (AS)	674
547	Luis Polonia	Rick Reuschel (AS)	663
548	Charlie Hayes	Alejandro Pena	664
549	Dickie Thon	Ricky Horton	666
550	Tim Crews	Curt Schilling	667
551	Dave Winfield	Bill Landrum	668
552	Mike Davis	Paul Gibson	657
553	Ron Robinson	Neal Heaton	658
554	Carmen Castillo	Nolan Ryan (5,000 K's)	659
555	John Costello	Harold Baines (AS)	660
556	Bud Black	Gary Pettis	661
557	Rick Dempsey	Clint Zavaras	662
558	Jim Acker	Steve Lyons	651
559	Eric Show	Mike LaCoss	652
560	Pat Borders	Ted Power	653
561	Danny Darwin	Howard Johnson (AS)	654
562	Rick Luecken	Mauro Gozzo	655
563	Edwin Nunez	Mike Blowers	656
564	Felix Jose	Francisco Cabrera	646
565	John Cangelosi	Scott Sanderson	647
566	Bill Swift	Steve Sax (MVP)	BC22
567	Bill Schroeder	Brian Meyer	648
568	Stan Javier	Ray Searage	649
569	Jim Traber	Bo Jackson (AS)	650
570	Wallace Johnson	Jaime Navarro	640
571	Donnell Nixon	Darrin Jackson	641
572	Sid Fernandez	Mike Dyer	642
573	Lance Johnson	Mike Schmidt (ATG)	643
574	Andy McGaffigan	Henry Cotto	644
575	Mark Knudson	John Cerutti	645
576	Tommy Greene	Terry Steinbach (AS)	637
577	Mark Grace	Brady Anderson	638
578	Larry Walker	Jack Morris	639
579	Mike Stanley	Alan Trammell (MVP)	BC26
580	Mike Witt	Julio Machado (RR) *White DP*	47
581	Scott Bradley	Oil Can Boyd	633
582	Greg A Harris	Chris Carpenter	634
583	Kevin Hickey	Will Clark (AS)	707
584	Lee Mazzilli	Randy Velarde	630
585	Jeff Pico	Todd Frohwirth	631
586	Joe Oliver	Ed Whitson (DK) *White DP*	26
587	Willie Fraser	Von Hayes (MVP)	BC25	Double Print
588	Carl Yastrzemski (Puzzle) *Blue DP*	Kevin Mitchell (AS)	715
588	Carl Yastrzemski (Puzzle) *Blue DP*	Willie McGee	632
589	Kevin Bass	Jeff Musselman	623	Double Print
590	John Moses	Mark Lemke	624	Double Print
591	Tom Pagnozzi *Blue DP*	Fernando Valenzuela	625
591	Tom Pagnozzi *Blue DP*	Wade Boggs (AS)	712
592	Tony Castillo	Paul Sorrento	626	Double Print
593	Jerald Clark	Glenallen Hill	627	Double Print
594	Dan Schatzeder	Les Lancaster *White DP*	628
595	Luis Quinones *Blue DP*	Ozzie Smith (AS)	710
595	Luis Quinones *Blue DP*	Tim Teufel	618
596	Pete Harnisch	Shawn Hillegas	619	Double Print
597	Gary Redus	John Olerud	711
598	Mel Hall	Gary Ward *White DP*	621
599	Rick Schu	Mark Guthrie *White DP*	622
600	Checklist (538-585)	Kelly Mann (RR)	46	Double Print
601	Mike Kingery	Candy Maldonado	611	Double Print
602	Terry Kennedy	Jerry Reed	614	Double Print
603	Mike Sharperson *Blue DP*	Franklin Stubbs	615
603	Mike Sharperson *Blue DP*	Dave Stewart (AS)	703
604	Don Carman	Billy Hatcher	616	Double Print
605	Jim Gott	Benito Santiago (AS)	708
606	Don Pall	Don Pall	606	Double Print
607	Rance Mullliniks	Gary Eave	713
608	Curt Wilkerson	Curt Wilkerson	608	Double Print
609	Mike Felder	Mike Felder	609	Double Print
610	Guillermo Hernandez	Guillermo Hernandez	610	Double Print
611	Candy Maldonado	Mike Kingery	601	Double Print
612	Mark Thurmond	Jim DeShaies (DK)	7	Double Print
613	Rick Leach	Checklist (436-483)	500	Double Print
614	Jerry Reed	Terry Kennedy	602	Double Print
615	Franklin Stubbs	Mike Sharperson *White DP*	603
616	Billy Hatcher	Don Carman	604	Double Print
617	Don August	Greg Swindell (MVP)	BC24	Double Print
618	Tim Teufel	Luis Quinones *White DP*	595
619	Shawn Hillegas	Pete Harnisch	596	Double Print
620	Manny Lee	Tony Gwynn (AS)	705
621	Gary Ward *Blue DP*	Mel Hall	598
621	Gary Ward *Blue DP*	Greg Myers	706
622	Mark Guthrie *Blue DP*	Rick Schu	599
622	Mark Guthrie *Blue DP*	Bob Tewksbury	714
623	Jeff Musselman	Kevin Bass	589	Double Print
624	Mark Lemke	John Moses	590	Double Print
625	Fernando Valenzuela	Tom Pagnozzi *White DP*	591
626	Paul Sorrento	Tony Castillo	592	Double Print
627	Glenallen Hill	Jerald Clark	593	Double Print
628	Les Lancaster *Blue DP*	Dan Schatzeder	594
628	Les Lancaster *Blue DP*	Julio Franco (AS)	701
629	Vance Law	Checklist (DK)	27	Double Print
630	Randy Velarde	Lee Mazzilli	584
630	Randy Velarde	Dave Johnson	702
631	Todd Frohwirth	Larry McWilliams	709
631	Todd Frohwirth	Jeff Pico	585
632	Willie McGee	Carl Yastrzemski (Puzzle) *White DP*	588
633	Oil Can Boyd	Mark McGwire (AS)	697
633	Oil Can Boyd	Scott Bradley	581
634	Chris Carpenter	Greg A. Harris	582
634	Chris Carpenter	Steve Cummings	698
635	Brian Holton	George Canale	699
636	Tracy Jones	Eric Davis (MVP)	BC23	Double Print
637	Terry Steinbach (AS)	Tommy Greene	576
638	Brady Anderson	Mark Grace	577
639	Jack Morris	Larry Walker	578
640	Jaime Navarro	Wallace Johnson	570
641	Darrin Jackson	Donell Nixon	571
642	Mike Dyer	Sid Fernandez	572
643	Mike Schmidt (ATG)	Lance Johnson	573
644	Henry Cotto	Andy McGaffigan	574
645	John Cerutti	Mark Knudson	575
646	Francisco Cabrera	Felix Jose	564
647	Scott Sanderson	John Cangelosi	565
648	Brian Meyer	Bill Schroeder	567
649	Ray Searage	Stan Javier	568
650	Bo Jackson (AS)	Jim Traber	569
651	Steve Lyons	Jim Acker	558
652	Mike LaCoss	Eric Show	559
653	Ted Power	Pat Borders	560
654	Howard Johnson (AS)	Danny Darwin	561
655	Mauro Gozzo	Rick Luecken	562
656	Mike Blowers	Edwin Nunez	563
657	Paul Gibson	Mike Davis	552
658	Neal Heaton	Ron Robinson	553
659	Nolan Ryan (5000K)	Carmen Castillo	554
660	Harold Baines (AS)	John Costello	555
661	Gary Pettis	Bud Black	556
662	Clint Zavaras	Rick Dempsey	557
663	Rick Reuschel (AS)	Luis Polonia	547
664	Alejandro Pena	Charlie Hayes	548
665	Nolan Ryan (King of Kings)	Ozzie Guillen (DK)	15
666	Ricky Horton	Dickie Thon	549
667	Curt Schilling	Tim Crews	550
668	Bill Landrum	Dave Winfield	551
669	Todd Stottlemyre	Wes Gardner	541
670	Tim Leary	Mark Portugal	542
671	John Wetteland	Al Leiter	543
672	Calvin Schiraldi	Jack Armstrong	544
673	Ruben Sierra (AS)	Greg Cadaret	545
674	Pedro Guerrero	Rod Nichols	546
675	Ken Phelps	Doug Strange	535
676	Cal Ripken (AS)	Jose DeLeon	536
677	Denny Walling	Shane Rawley	537
678	Goose Gossage	Joey Cora	538
679	Gary Mielke	Eric Hetzel	539
680	Bill Bathe	Gene Nelson	540
681	Tom Lawless	Jeff Peterek	530
682	Xavier Hernandez	Carlos Martinez	531
683	Kirby Puckett	Steve Sax (MVP)	BC22
684	Mariano Duncan	Atlee Hammaker	532
685	Ramon Martinez	Mike Brumley	533
686	Tim Jones	Terry Leach	534
687	Tom Filer	Dave Schmidt	524
688	Steve Lombardozzi	Tony Armas	525
689	Bernie Williams	Barry Lyons	526
690	Chip Hale	Rick Reed	527
691	Beau Allred	Jerry Reuss	528
692	Ryne Sandberg (AS)	Dean Palmer	529
693	Jeff Huson	Mike Jeffcoat	521
694	Curt Ford	Mike Harkey	522
695	Eric Davis (AS)	Andy Nezelek	523
696	Scott Lusader	Glenn Davis (MVP)	BC21
697	Mark McGwire (AS)	Oil Can Boyd	633
698	Steve Cummings	Chris Carpenter	634
699	George Canale	Brian Holton	635
701	Julio Franco (AS)	Les Lancaster *White DP*	628
702	Dave Johnson	Randy Velarde	630
703	Dave Stewart (AS)	Mike Sharperson *White DP*	603
704	Dave Justice	Ed Whitson (DK) *White DP*	26
705	Tony Gwynn (AS)	Manny Lee	620
706	Greg Myers	Gary Ward *White DP*	621
707	Will Clark (AS)	Kevin Hickey	583
708	Benito Santiago (AS)	Jim Gott	605
709	Larry McWilliams	Todd Frohwirth	631
710	Ozzie Smith (AS)	Luis Quinones *White DP*	595
711	John Olerud	Gary Redus	597
712	Wade Boggs (AS)	Tom Pagnozzi *White DP*	591
713	Gary Eave	Rance Mulliniks	607
714	Bob Tewksbury	Mark Guthrie *White DP*	622
715	Kevin Mitchell (AS)	Carl Yastrzemski (Puzzle) *White DP*	588
716	Bart Giamatti	Julio Machado (RR) *White DP*	47
BC21	Glenn Davis (MVP)	Scott Lusader	696
BC22	Steve Sax (MVP)	Kirby Puckett (AS)	683
BC22	Steve Sax (MVP)	Bill Swift	566
BC23	Eric Davis (MVP)	Tracy Jones	636	Double Print
BC24	Greg Swindell (MVP)	Don August	617	Double Print
BC25	Von Hayes (MVP)	Willie Fraser	587	Double Print
BC26	Alan Trammell (MVP)	Mike Stanley	579

 

[Gwynn545]

Dang...two Gwynns...(heavy sigh)

 

[tunahead]

Dang...two Gwynns...(heavy sigh)

Tell me about it... I was both excited and saddened to find out there was actually an inverse for my Ripken. Even worse... his Bonus MVP card is in the Red/Red Test... I'll have a checklist for that set tomorrow hopefully!

 

[jszczech]

Now I just need to find the Pucketts.

 

[tunahead]

Now I just need to find the Pucketts.

Judging from the prices that other stars sold for back in November, you'll pay a pretty penny for them! I've seen the Puckett that is on the white side as a single, but only recently saw that Puckett exists on the blue side as well, but it's on the uncut sheet that has recently been discovered.

 

[TBTwinsFan]

I picked up the Kingery/Maldonado cards for my player collection a while back and I had to pay through the nose (in relation to the players) to get them.

Totally worth it though, since those are probably the hardest Kingery cards to obtain.

 

[tunahead]

I picked up the Kingery/Maldonado cards for my player collection a while back and I had to pay through the nose (in relation to the players) to get them.

Totally worth it though, since those are probably the hardest Kingery cards to obtain.

I picked up my Ripken for fairly cheap compared to recent prices, but that was about 10 years ago now. I don't think I will have the same luck if the inverse with Ripken on the blue side comes up for sale/auction as a single...

 

[jszczech]

Judging from the prices that other stars sold for back in November, you'll pay a pretty penny for them! I've seen the Puckett that is on the white side as a single, but only recently saw that Puckett exists on the blue side as well, but it's on the uncut sheet that has recently been discovered.

Yeah it will be very expensive to say the least. I know of a collect that has a Puckett white/Sax blue but I have only seen pictures. I am sure that would be expensive if one ever became available.

 

[gracecollector]

How did you verify the inverse exists? Have you seen examples of all, or going by what sheet placement should dictate?

Never seen a Grace White Side / Anderson Blue Side.

 

[George_Calfas]

This would be a great item for [MENTION=1720]cgilmo[/MENTION] to have on the front page/blog/podcast etc.....

 

[tunahead]

How did you verify the inverse exists? Have you seen examples of all, or going by what sheet placement should dictate?

Never seen a Grace White Side / Anderson Blue Side.

From this video (and yes the :50 mark makes me cringe):

[video=youtube;o9bkWpixtxQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=o9bkWpixtxQ[/video]


Hard to see everything on there from the low quality, but here's a spreadsheet of every card on that sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...dE93OE03dnYxdXpZX0J3TFdaYkxha lE&usp=sharing

 

[jszczech]

Cool video. I wonder what the guy has planned for it? He could probably make mint if he had it cut up professionally.

 

[tunahead]

Cool video. I wonder what the guy has planned for it? He could probably make mint if he had it cut up professionally.

He says he plans to auction that and the Red/Red sheet that he has. I think having it cut would be the better bang for the buck, but either way it should bring some good cash. If it's cut I hope the Ripken singles will show up for auction

 

[RStadlerASU22]

He says he plans to auction that and the Red/Red sheet that he has. I think having it cut would be the better bang for the buck, but either way it should bring some good cash. If it's cut I hope the Ripken singles will show up for auction

Do you happen to know when I where (eBay?) he plans to list? Does he only have a sheet of each? Does he have both runs? And do you think the Red is as Rare as his statement in his title is?

Thanks
Ryan

 

[tunahead]

Do you happen to know when I where (eBay?) he plans to list? Does he only have a sheet of each? Also since I'd say your close to an expert in them is the Red/Red more rare?

Thanks
Ryan

He just said in the next week or so he plans to auction them. I've messaged him to get more details but haven't heard back yet.

As far as the Red/Red set, I really don't know much about it. I would say they are slightly rarer. This past summer when all the Blue/White and Aqueous cards went up for sale was the first time I had seen the Red/Red test cards. Then in November a few more turned up. He did have as many as 3 of one card, but some of those may have been double prints. From the checklist of 50 cards I was able to make, it appeared only one sheet was used and the same sheet was printed both front and back (which is why there were several cards with the same player on the front and back). The sheet this guy has though doesn't seem to be the same as the other singles though.

 

[RStadlerASU22]

He just said in the next week or so he plans to auction them. I've messaged him to get more details but haven't heard back yet.

As far as the Red/Red set, I really don't know much about it. I would say they are slightly rarer. This past summer when all the Blue/White and Aqueous cards went up for sale was the first time I had seen the Red/Red test cards. Then in November a few more turned up. He did have as many as 3 of one card, but some of those may have been double prints. From the checklist of 50 cards I was able to make, it appeared only one sheet was used and the same sheet was printed both front and back (which is why there were several cards with the same player on the front and back). The sheet this guy has though doesn't seem to be the same as the other singles though.

Ok, thanks for the info. Good work on compiling this list. I have never gone after the Clark's as I just felt were more than thought out there (as you know a large amount went up within the year), but I'll have to breakdown one day.

Ryan

 

[tunahead]

Ok, thanks for the info. Good work on compiling this list. I have never gone after the Clark's as I just felt were more than thought out there (as you know a large amount went up within the year), but I'll have to breakdown one day.

Ryan

From what I've seen currently I don't think there are more than 3-4 of each card (except for the double prints). I know of 2 other Ripkens like mine, and know who owns them, but have never seen more. The blue Ripken on the sheet is the first I have seen, along with many others like the Puckett, McGwire, 2 Ryans, etc. But as we saw last year with the Aqueous Test cards, there could be a few more in hiding.

 

[gracecollector]

Thanks for the answer, and more so for your work on the list. And now, I've seen it!

 

[RAZOR-Z]

Double REDS
1990 Donruss Red/Red Test Uncut Sheet - 500 Times As Rare As Aqueous! - YouTube