1988 Donruss Traded? Team Collections thread
 

Noticed some uncut 9-card sheets of 1988 Donruss pop up on COMC this week that I'd never seen before. This was surprising because I collected cards as a kid from 1987-1995 and didn't realize that Donruss made these in team books like this:
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/P5oAAO...D2u/s-l800.jpg

The cool thing about these uncut sheets is that the cards have full backs and were updated based on trades throughout the season, basically making those additional cards rare for the issue. The cards that were not released in the base set were given the card number "NEW".

http://img.comc.com/i/Baseball/1988/...&size=original
1988 Donruss Team Sheet #OAK - Oakland A's
Courtesy of COMC.com

http://img.comc.com/i/Baseball/1988/...inal&side=back
1988 Donruss Team Sheet #OAK - Oakland A's
Courtesy of COMC.com

Prices for the notebooks are pretty cheap, so it wouldn't be expensive to put together a hand-cut traded set for 1988. There are only five teams that they put team sheets out for, based on eBay searches: Oakland A's, New York Mets and Yankees, Boston Red Sox, and St. Louis Cardinals.

PSA has graded these cuts, and I figure they would be popular for player registry set collectors. Nice thing about them for cutting is that they have a wide border between the cards so you don't have to cut into one card to get a better card next to it.
http://www.psacard.com/pop/baseball-cards/1988/20976

I'll try to put together a checklist of these cards this afternoon during a football game.

I got the Boston, Mets and Oakland books when they came out.

Where were they sold? Traveling book fair was a guess of mine. Possible regional releases due to the teams? I grew up in Florida.

Sports card vendors at New Jersey indoor and outdoor Flea Markets. They were cheap.

Realized I wasn't going to be able to find all the scans of the cards, and since a set was only $11 shipped, I bought it. Will catalog once I get it in; each team has 27 cards, plus the Stan Musial puzzle.

Cool find John, never seen those before. I will have to pick up a Red Sox one for the Boggs and Clemens cards.

Here are my 2 of the 3 that I dug out. and O.T. the Sports Block by Pinnacle

Here's the Mets and Athletics team checklists:
Oakland A’s –
97 Curt Young
133 Gene Nelson
158 Terry Steinbach
178 Carney Lansford
221 Tony Phillips
256 Mark McGwire
302 Jose Canseco
349 Dennis Eckersley
379 Mike Gallego
425 Luis Polonia
467 Steve Ontiveros
472 Dave Stewart
503 Eric Plunk
528 Greg Cadaret
590 Rick Honeycutt
595 Storm Davis
NEW Bob Welch
NEW Don Baylor
NEW Dave Henderson
NEW Matt Young
NEW Ron Hassey
NEW Dave Parker
NEW Stan Javier
NEW Edward Jurak (Only OAK Athletics card?)
NEW Glenn Hubbard
NEW Walt Weiss
NEW Doug Jennings

New York Mets –
NEW Jeff Innis
NEW Mackey Sasser
NEW Gene Walter
37 Kevin Elster
69 Dwight Gooden
76 Ron Darling
118 Sid Fernandez
199 Gary Carter
241 Wally Backman
316 Keith Hernandez
323 Dave Magadan
364 Lenny Dykstra
439 Darryl Strawberry
446 Rick Aguilera
562 Keith Miller
569 Howard Johnson
603 Terry Leach
614 Lee Mazzilli
617 Kevin McReynolds
619 Barry Lyons
620 Randy Myers
632 Bob Ojeda
651 Roger McDowell
652 Mookie Wilson
653 David Cone
657 Gregg Jefferies

The checklists are all available at TradingCardDB.com. I remember seeing these at book stores when the came out; B. Dalton, Bookland, Walden Books. Basically mall bookstores. That was about the only place I saw them. That was also the only place I ever saw the Cadaco Ellis games and the Red Foley Best Baseball Book Ever releases.

Don't forget the Cubs book, you even have it shown on your image. I bought a few to give it a try cutting them up, but never did since I got a Greg Maddux PSA graded example.