I recently got a pack of 1988 Donruss in a Fairfield repackage that I bought at a CVS in town. Over the years, I've probably opened more of this product than another other Donruss issue. It was my first Donruss set and I went a little nuts about these blue-bordered cards at the time when I was nine years old. It wouldn't be until the next year with the first Upper Deck set that I was introduced to the idea of paying $1 for a single pack of cards. Before that, a couple quarters could be me 15 cards plus a puzzle piece at my local Phar-Mor pharmacy.
This particular pack turned out to be the worst pack of Donruss cards I've ever opened. Here's the first nine.
This is the kind of pack that still affects you decades after it was produced. It is a collecting booby trap. It makes me question what the hell am I doing with my money and my time in 2022.
And my next six, plus my puzzle piece. The puzzle piece could have redeemed the pack if it had included the subject's face but instead I got Stan Musial's legs.
You aren't seeing things, I did pull two Ozzie Virgils in the same pack.
The only way junk wax is ever going to be valuable is if collectors start recycling it to lower the number available or we get a time machine and start sending back mothers to throw their kids collections away, just as they did in the 1950s. That's where this pack belongs, the dump.
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No, in 2022 that's a terrible pack. But in '88, it would have been considered decent (at least by me).
For me as a Met fan, at least there's one Met and one ex-Met. OTOH, there's notorious racist Eric Show.