1991 Cracker Jack un-cut "sheet"

Card Review: Incomplete  I'm not calling this a "card" even though a feels a lot more like a card than the regular Cracker Jack card.  While I'm not calling this a card, I still like it a lot, and the player selection is fantastic.  I always viewed Kelly Gruber as the slightly inferior American League Tim Wallach.  Like Wallach, he was a great player who didn't get nearly the attention he deserved because he played in Canada.  Howard Johnson on the other hand, was not one of my favorites.  He did however provided me with a nice example to use in arguments as to the levels Super Star status Wallach would have reached  had he played in New York.  DeShields was/is/remains one of my personal favorites.

1988 Leaf #255 "Canadian Greats"

Card Review: 9.4  Every year growing up as a kid, I would eagerly tear into new packs of Donruss hoping to find that Tim Wallach had been chosen as Montreal's "Diamond King."  Wallach was never selected, and there were some very questionable selections on the part of Donruss over the years (Bryn Smith!?!).  Years later thanks to ebay and the internet, I discovered this card had been put out by Leaf.  It felt like a bit of a victory.

Fun Facts: *The following is list of Montreal's Diamond Kings chosen instead of Wallach
1982: Gary Carter
1983: Steve Rogers
1984: Al Oliver
1985: Charlie Lea
1986: Andre Dawson
1987: Hubie Brooks
1988: Tim Raines
1989: Andres Galarraga
1990: Bryn Smith
1991: Delino DeSheilds
*1983, 1988, and 1990 were particularly disappointing selections

Number of this card in my collection: 2
2013 update: 22
2015 update: 26 
2016 update: 27
2017 update: 28
2018 update: 31
2019 update: 35

2020 update: n/a

2021 update: n/a

2022 update: n/a

2023 update: n/a

2024 update: 37

2025 update: 46 

2026 update: 47