Friday, August 6, 2021

1984 Donruss Needs

The 1984 Donruss set is one of the most iconic baseball card sets from the 1980's. Donruss made a major leap forward, improving drastically from it's 1981, 1982, and 1983 sets and put out a quality product in 1984. The photo quality is great, a nice rookie class and at least what is thought to be scarcity, compared to other sets at the time, make the 1984 Donruss set one of the most sought after sets of the 80's.

I bought a collection a few years ago that had a partial set and I bought another collection that had both the Mattingly and Strawberry rookie cards, so I figured why not complete the set. I had a few cards already and I took my list to my LCS and was able to grab 100+ cards I needed. I am now down to just 80 cards. Most are star cards though which is both good and bad. Good because I should be able to find them easier, but bad because the 1984 Donruss cards of star players tend to command a slight premium to other cards of the same era, so it will cost me a little bit to complete the set.

Night Owl sent me 5 cards I needed on 8/19/21.

2- Dave Concepcion DK
3- Dwayne Murphy DK
4- John Castino DK
5- Leon Durham DK
6- Rusty Staub DK
7- Jack Clark DK
9- Al Oliver DK
13- Bruce Sutter DK
14- Bob Horner DK
15- Lance Parrish DK
17- Fred Lynn DK
20- Bill Madlock DK
21-Larry Parrish DK
23- Mike Schmidt DK
25- Andre Thornton DK
32- Tony Fernandez
39- Greg Gagne
44- Sid Fernandez
49- Lance Parrish
50- Jim Rice
53- George Brett
54- Ricky Henderson
58- Harold Baines
60- Nolan Ryan
70- Kent Hrbek
83- Andy Van Slyke
97- Andre Dawson
104- Steve Sax
106- Cal Ripken
107- Paul Molitor
121- Dave Concepcion
151- Wade Boggs
171- Chet Lemon
183- Mike Schmidt
239- Larry Bowa
242- Tom Brunansky
293- Alan Trammell
311- Ryne Sandberg
324- Tony Gwynn
339- Mark Houseman
355- Joe Morgan
364- Frank Viola
396- Goose Gossage
414- Don Sutton
415- Jack Morris
423- Brian Downing
450- Kevin Bass
473- Tippy Martinez
529- Ron Reed
535- Bob Horner
547- Tug McGraw
575- Manny Trillo
576- Jim Palmer
593- Kirk Gibson
638- Charlie Hough
639- Dennis Eckersly
651- The Chicken
CL 235-338
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3 comments:

  1. FujiAugust 6, 2021 at 7:26 AM

    Best of luck completing it. I got lucky with this set. Picked up a binder with the complete set (minus 5 cards) at the flea market for $12. Luckily none of the 5 singles were big names or key rookie cards.

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  2. Elliptical ManAugust 6, 2021 at 7:47 AM

    Card Barrel has a lot of those.

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  3. night owlAugust 6, 2021 at 8:16 AM

    Best Donruss set ever made. I have a few extras, I'll check your list, maybe I'll have a couple.

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