Brooks Robinson and the Baltimore Orioles

[BaltOrioles]

Today, I'm going to focus on the 1989 Donruss set. This is by far the most challenging set if you want to put together a master team set with all the variations. So far, my research has found that every card has a least four variations, with some cards as many as six. The Eddie Murray card is an example of having all six different backs.

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There are three areas to look for on the back.

1. Each card comes with either INC (no period) or INC. (with period)
2. Each card comes with either *Denotes or *Denotes*

Here are example of each variation combo.

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3. Each card comes with either a narrow space or wide space between the Career stats line and the Contract Status info.

Here are both examples.

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Congrats, if you are still reading... After all of that, I have found cards with six different combos of these variations.

Here is the master list I have created. The cards with a blank are the combos I don't have and haven't been able to verify, but possibly do exist. I am interested in any of those, if anyone has them.

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