30 Unopened packs of baseball Cards

It doesn't happen very often but when it does... I'm talking about unopened packs of baseball cards on eBayUK. Just last week, a seller put five lots of unopened baseball cards up for auction, I was lucky enough to win four of them, I was hoping for the fifth but was beaten out. Hopefully it went to the good home of one of my fellow UK card bloggers.
All the packs are from 2002/3, Donruss and Upper Deck. I have a sneaking suspicion that they are from repack boxes because there is clear plastic glue on the back or front of about 5 packs.
Some of these sets are familiar, but most were new to me.
Included was;

1999 Upper Deck Powerdeck 1pack,

2001 Donruss Studio 4packs,

2002 Upper Deck Rookie Debut  pack,

2002 Donruss Fan Club 5packs,

2002 Donruss 1pack,

2003 Upper Deck First Pitch 4packs,

2003 Upper Deck Series 1 2packs,

2003 Upper Deck Series 2 2packs,

2003 Upper Deck MVP 2packs,

2003 Upper Deck Standing O!  2packs,

2003 Donruss Team Heroes 2packs,

2003 Upper Deck Honor Roll 2packs,

2003 Upper Deck 40 Man 2packs.

They were delivered in a lovely big brown paper covered brick. I'm not ashamed to say it was a tad exciting. There was only one draw back - postage. It started as £15.00, I was able to knock it down to £8.00, knowing full well that it wouldn't come close to that. The actual postage cost was £2.80. I'm not sure why sellers do this and it is one thing that puts me right off eBay.
But look at all these unopened packs, such a glorious sight.
I will be cracking them open at Pursuit of Red Sox, my bold mission to collect Red Sox cards from packs and complete the occasional set.
All other cards will go into various trade piles.

1991 Donruss Series 2 Baseball

The second helping from Big B at Waxaholic, 1991 Donruss Series 2-The Green ones.
For information on this set look here.
The pack contains 15 picture cards and 3 puzzle pieces of Willie Stargell.

The pack:

#411 Will Clark All Star

#667 Chris Nabholz Expos

#407 Kevin Mitchell MVP Giants

#711 Carlos Hernandez Dodgers

#717 Wait Terrell Tigers

#725 Randy Tomlin Pirates

#410 Len Dykstra MVP Phillies

#427 Jeff Conine RR Royals

#430 Mo Vaughn RR Red Sox

#729 Rob Deer Tigers
#735 Ken Dayley Blue Jays
#740 Kevin Appier Royals
#745 Paul Sorrento Twins
#764 Julio Machado Brewers
#767 Scott Erickson Twins

plus 13, 14, 15 Puzzle pieces Willie's head.

One Red Sox card but what a card, Big Mo Vaughn Rated Rookie.

Thanks for the two packs Brian. Much appreciated.

1988 Donruss baseball

If you check the wants' lists on blogs, as I do from time to time. Nobody needs any 1988 Donruss cards. Did they over print or are there no real 'big' cards in the set? Either way it appears that everyone has all the 1988 Donruss they want or need. Still a pack is a pack.
There are 660 cards in the base set.
The subsets include: 27 Diamond Kings (#1-27), 20 Rated Rookies(#28- 47), 26 Bonus MVP's and 26 short printed cards (#648-660).
There are 15 cards and 3 puzzle pieces in a pack.

The pack:

Puzzle piece 34, 35, 36

#19 Gary Gaetti DK Twins

#54 Mark Gubicza Royals

#102 George Brett Royals

#103 Mickey Tettleton A's

#150 Terrence Kennedy Orioles

#186 Baudilio Diaz Reds

#234 Jose Oquendo Cardinals

#235 William Doran Astros

#283 Devon White Angels

#366 Jim Presley Brewers

#367 Lloyd Moseby Blue Jays

#416 Brain Dayett Cubs

#452 Guy Hoffman Reds

#499 Tracy Woodson Dodgers

#585 Jeff Sellers Red Sox

Hey, hey a Red Sox.

1986 Donruss Pop-up

The second helping of different packs from Dayf is this 1986 Donruss All-star pack. Two things make this one unusual. Firstly '..its wrapped in plastic..' and therefore you can see the cards your getting, secondly the cards are bigger than your average card, not to mention that one of the cards pops up!
There are 18 pop-up cards in the set.
There are 60 All-stars cards in the set.
Included in this pack is a pop-up card and 3 large Donruss All-Stars .

The pack:

#13 Pop-up Jim Rice Red Sox

#16 Jim Rice Red Sox

#25 Tim Wallach Expos

#38 Dick Williams Manager NL All-Stars

Two Red Sox. Things are looking up. How do you store these larger cards?

1991 Donruss baseball

This is the first of three different packs I received from Dayf in a trade recently. This one is unusual because it contains only three cards. My limited experience tells me that it must have been included with something else like bread or cookies or cereal or cheese. There is no give away on the pack or cards to mark them as different, only that there is less cards.
The 1991 Donruss set has 770 cards in the base set.
The subsets included: Diamond Kings, Rated Rookies, Al and NL All Stars, MVP's.
Additional information in this post.

The pack:

Puzzle piece 40, 41, 42

#1 Dave Stieb Blue Jays

#101 R.J. Reynolds Pirates

#314 Kevin Brown Rangers

NO Red Sox. Any enlightening information would be well received.

1991 Donruss Series 2 Baseball

There are 384 cards in the Series 2 base set (#387 to #770)

There are inserts: 27 MVP (#387-#412), 8 NL All-stars (#433-#441) and 19 Rated Rookies (#413-#432).

There are sub-sets: 22 Bonus cards, 14 Grand Slammers and 10 Elite (#to 10,000).

There are 15 cards and 3 puzzle pieces per pack.

The pack:

puzzle piece 52,53,54

#389 Fred McGriff Blue Jays MVP

#414 Tim McIntosh Brewers Rated Rookie

#433 Ryne Sandberg Cubs All-Star

#445 Kirk Gibson Dodgers

#451 Cecil Fielder Tigers

#456 Tony Pena Red Sox

#457Tim Raines Expos

#462 Rick Sutcliffe Cubs

#463 Danny Tartabull Royals

#468 Dave Winfield Angels

#471 Barry Larkin Reds

#472 Ron Darling Mets

#477 Frank Thomas White Sox

#483 Mike Scott Astros

#489 Sandy Alomar Indians

1 Red Sox card from an interesting set. Series 1 was blue, Series 2 was green.
It was in the 1991 Donruss set that for the first time serial numbers cards were included in a standard set. Each of the Elite cards were numbered to 10, 000, a Nolan Ryan Dick Perez drawing to 7,500 and a Ryne Sandberg auto to 5,000. I wonder if they knew then what this would lead to.

1992 DONRUSS series two

These packs contains 15 cards.

The regular set consists of 784 cards which were issued in two separate series of 396.

The inserts (or subsets) include Rated Rookies , All-Stars and Highlights.

Series one were in blue foil packs and Series two in red foil packs.

Pack 1:

#BC2 Terry Pendelton NL MVP

#BC7 Colorado Rockies

#421 Lance Dickson RR Cubs

#701 Jim Lindeman Phillies

#705 Jaime Navarro Brewers

#709 John Cerutti Tigers

#714 Mitch Webster Dodgers

#719 Sid Fernandez Mets

#734 Billy Ripkin Orioles

#739 Tony Castillo Mets

#740 Sammy Sosa White Sox

#743 Steve Wapnick White Sox

#745 Darrin Chapin Yankees

#748 Rosario Rodriguez Pirates

#783 Bryan Hickerson Giants

Pack 2:

#429 Ryne Sandberg AS Cubs

#555 Gossage and Ryan Highlights Rangers

#560 Luis Alicea Cardinals

#564 Deion Sanders Braves

#565 Walt Terrell Tigers

#570 Scott Cooper Red Sox

#609 Carlos Quintana Red Sox

#612 Daryl Boston Mets

#635 Matt Young Red Sox

#641 Omar Vizquel Mariners

#642 Rick Sutcliffe Cubs

#646 Jack Howell Padres

#650 Chuck McElroy Cubs

#655 Scott Ray Cardinals

#660 Steve Frey Expos

The second pack had 3 Red Sox, which is a surprising ratio. These cards didn't set the card collecting world alight and I bought 6 packs for 99p on e-bay UK. The design is not stimulating but the players pictures on the front are large and usually action shots. The Colorado Rockies logo was the first of the type I had seen from this set. I presume it was because they were an expansion team.