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Old 01-23-2021, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by deweyinthehall View Post
81 Donruss was a mess for all the reasons given - but to their credit they really pulled a great turnaround and their 82 set was better in every regard. Curiously, Fleer went the exact opposite way - good debut, lousy follow-up the next year.
Agree, 100%. It's like the designers/production folks left Fleer in the fall of '81 and all went to Donruss, and vice versa.

I can't think of a single nice thing to say about the 1981 Donruss cards. Even the gum was terrible for sticking to the cards. We would put boxes of wax in the freezer so that the gum would 'pop' off the cards instead of tearing them.

And thanks for the video, that was a trip and not an uncommon experience in the summer of 1981.
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