Oh Super Sweet 90's Inserts.... #3

[jam022316]

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Thought I would bump this thread with a fun acquisition. This one had been teasing me for a while and the price seemed to keep getting a little better. Then with the 10% eBay bucks I took the plunge! I didn’t start out trying to do it but I have a nearly complete set at this point too. Missing a couple of the keys in Will Clark and Frank Thomas but many of the ones I do have are BGS 9s and 9.5s.

What’s the story behind these? Why are they so rare?


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[joey12508]

What’s the story behind these? Why are they so rare?


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i believe they never were released.

 

[jam022316]

i believe they never were released.

Ahhh that would make sense


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[magicpapa]

i believe they never were released.

A very limited amount of 5" X 7" cards were produced. These issues were never formally released but these cards were intended to be premiums in retail products. I've also heard they were salesman samples................... so who really knows

 

[nosterbor]

do all the DK's That year have a 5x7?

 

[Therion]

I've told this story for years, but I got one of the DKs out of the bottom of a box of 1992 Donruss cards at a gas station. It was just in a white sleeve, totally unmarked. I almost missed that it was even there because it just looked like the bottom of the box. I spent the summer buying all of the packs from this box, grabbing one or two with my allowance when we would go to the lake on the weekend. I asked the gas station attendant how much for it and they just gave it to me. I have no idea where it is, but if I ever find it, there is another Frank Thomas out there.

 

[magicpapa]

I've told this story for years, but I got one of the DKs out of the bottom of a box of 1992 Donruss cards at a gas station. It was just in a white sleeve, totally unmarked. I almost missed that it was even there because it just looked like the bottom of the box. I spent the summer buying all of the packs from this box, grabbing one or two with my allowance when we would go to the lake on the weekend. I asked the gas station attendant how much for it and they just gave it to me. I have no idea where it is, but if I ever find it, there is another Frank Thomas out there.

you sure it was 1992? 1994 had them as toppers
Each retail waxbox came packaged with a 5" X 7" oversized Diamond King as a box topper, which is serial-numbered to 10,000 copies. also 1993 had Elite Supers, not sure how they were distributed

 

[magicpapa]

do all the DK's That year have a 5x7?

as far as I know, yes
there was a member here that saw or knew someone with a complete set or 2

 

[Therion]

you sure it was 1992? 1994 had them as toppers
Each retail waxbox came packaged with a 5" X 7" oversized Diamond King as a box topper, which is serial-numbered to 10,000 copies. also 1993 had Elite Supers, not sure how they were distributed

100% sure. I opened so many packs of 1992 Donruss that year, and I don't know how anyone could confuse the design of 1992 with 1994 lol

Also, the 1994 oversized Diamond King cards were marked as such on the envelope. This envelope was just white with nothing on it. It just looked like the bottom of the box.

 

[maestracewslover]

there was a guy who had some good pictures and insight to the DK mystery. It was calripkenjr.net


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[maestracewslover]

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[nosterbor]

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do you have a Juan Gonzalez you would like to sell?

 

[chippercards.com]

do you have a Juan Gonzalez you would like to sell?

1992, no Juan. Finally took photos of a few:



And the newest addition

 

[nosterbor]

Why are those 1992? Here is a Juan 1993. Same design


http://juangone.com/pictures.php?cardid=114

 

[magicpapa]

Why are those 1992? Here is a Juan 1993. Same design


http://juangone.com/pictures.php?cardid=114

1993 had the same design too

DK7 Juan Gonzalez

 

[magicpapa]

Why are those 1992? Here is a Juan 1993. Same design


http://juangone.com/pictures.php?cardid=114

1993 had the same design too

also this that year
As part of a contest, collectors 16 years of age and younger could win one of the original Diamond King paintings. All a youngster had to do was to write an essay of 75 words or less explaining who their favorite Diamond King player was and why. Winners were awarded one of 30 framed watercolors at the 1993 National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago.

DK7 Juan Gonzalez

 

[Letch77]

I've told this story for years, but I got one of the DKs out of the bottom of a box of 1992 Donruss cards at a gas station. It was just in a white sleeve, totally unmarked. I almost missed that it was even there because it just looked like the bottom of the box. I spent the summer buying all of the packs from this box, grabbing one or two with my allowance when we would go to the lake on the weekend. I asked the gas station attendant how much for it and they just gave it to me. I have no idea where it is, but if I ever find it, there is another Frank Thomas out there.

If you come across that Thomas...I'm a highly interested party. Get to looking! :lol:

 

[WizardofOz1982]

Why are those 1992? Here is a Juan 1993. Same design


https://juangone.com/pictures.php?cardid=114

The design of the front of both 1992 and 1993 were the same. The backs are different colors though. 1992s have blue backgrounds and 1993s have green if memory serves.

The copyright dates are different as well. 1992 has a 1991 copyright and the 1993 set has a 1992 copyright. I can only guess that means they were printed in the previous year (late in the year perhaps?) for release at the beginning of the following year.

Juan wasn't in the 1992 set.

 

[Ripkenfan126]

Received one of my grails today!!

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[MansGame]

^^^ Whoa... whoa... whoa...