1990 Donruss Baseball's Best #55

Card Review: 8.8  I like these blue variants of the red '90 Donruss design.  It's too bad they didn't do something similar with Baseball's Best set in '89.  Instead of changing the color pattern in 1989, they just used an identical design.  It's impossible to tell the difference looking at the front.  This color variation makes the set stand out on it's own, while keeping with the theme of the year, and I much prefer that.  And it's not like this idea just occurred to Donruss in 1990, because in '88 this set also was a color variation, changing the base blue/black design to an orange/black design.

Number of this card in my collection: 1
2012 update: 2
2013 update: 6
2014 update: n/a
2015 update: n/a
2016 update: n/a
2017 update: 8
2018 update: 10
2018 update: 12
2019 update: n/a
2020 update: 14

2021 update: 15

2022 update: 19

2023 update: 20

2024 update: n/a

2025 update: 21

2026 update: 22

1989 Donruss Baseball's Best#34

Card Review: 8.7  This is another set I know nothing about, the number of cards in the set, how it was distributed, ect.  I dind't even know it existed until years after it was issued.  The front design is identical to the '89 Donruss base set, but the back is unique.  While I prefer the stats on this one to the base set, this something mildly disconcerting about a Donruss card without the standard Donruss style of card back.  The green also bugs me.  Perhaps its just a result of shuffling through thousands of '89 Donruss and having the orange ingrained into my brain as the proper color for the back of this card, but I really think the lime green clashes with the greens and yellows on the front (not that orange works much better).

Number of this card in my collection: 3
2013 update: 4
2014 update: 12
2015 update: 15
2016 update: 17
2017 update: 19
2018 update: n/a
2019 update: 23
2020 update: 26

2021 update: 29

2022 update: 33

2023 update: 34

2024 update: n/a

2025 update: n/a

2026 update: 39