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Originally Posted by judsonhamlin
I have been following the various best/worst set polls about post war sets and they got me thinking about a variation on that theme - sets that are significant in terms of the hobby's evolution these past 70 years.
1981 Fleer/Donruss: first national sets to challenge Topps since 1956. Not the most well-manufactured or designed cards, but the fact that they were out there changed the collectors' game for good and for ill. In some ways, the beginning of the end, or at least the end of the beginning.
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While you are on the right track here it was actually SSPC in 1975 that initially challenged Topps. In 1981 Donruss and Fleer ended up piggybacking upon what SSPC started and Donruss incorporated several people who were involved in the SSPC attempt in their production of 1981 Donruss.
TCMA Ltd. was the exclusive distributor of both 1981 and 1982 Donruss. Not coincidentally, they were also the publishers of 1975/1976 SSPC
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