1993 Fleer

Wow, I didn't realize that it's been over two weeks since my last entry. Between Facebook, other writing projects, and just plain writer's block when thinking about the upcoming lackluster 90's sets, I just haven't been able to muster up the gumption to get on here and keep plugging away. But with a little help from my friends at Anheuser-Busch, maybe I can get something going tonight.

There were a couple of great looking issues from Fleer in '93. This wasn't one of them. This is quite possibly one of the most boring sets ever. But compared to a lot of the crap that came out in the 90's, boring is ok. 

At the time I actually thought these were pretty cool and collected the whole 9 billion card base set, which I gave away shortly after completing. But I kept the Tigers cards, so here they are, pink trim be damned. 

The 1993 Fleer Detroit Tigers:

224 Milt Cuyler

225 Rob Deer

226 John Doherty

227 Cecil Fielder

228 Trvis Fryman

229 Mike Henneman

230 John Kiely

231 Kurt Knudsen

232 Scott Livingstone

233 Tony Phillips

234 Mickey Tettleton

345  League Leaders Cecil Fielder

603 Skeeter Barnes

604 Mark Carreon

605 Dan Gladden

606 Bill Gullickson

607 Chad Kreuter

608 Mark Leiter

609 Mike Munoz

610 Rich Rowland

611 Frank Tanana

612 Walt Terrell

613 Alan Trammell

614 Lou Whitaker

711 Round Trippers Cecil Fielder

714 Super Star Special Cecil Fielder

There were a few different inserts, but I only have one. At least it was the one of one of the greatest players in MLB history, and I'm not talking about Cecil. (sorry, that's a Detroit Tigers Forum inside joke.....check out the link in the sidebar to find many more)

1993 AL All-Stars

5 Cecil Fielder

Major League Prospects

15 Rico Brogna

Pro-Visions II

3 Cecil Fielder

Rookie Sensations

6 Scott Livingstone

Fleer introduced the mother of all update sets in '93, with this one checking in at 300 cards. So essentially it was a full third series. No inserts that I know of, but a nice list of Tigers.

1993 Fleer Final Edition:

209F Kirk Gibson

210F Greg Gohr

211F Bill Krueger

212F Bob MacDonald

213F Mike Moore

214F David Wells

I've mentioned before my rule of collecting Tigers team sets, but it was a long time ago, so I'll mention it again, because one of the rules applies here. My general rule of thumb is that if the team listed on the front says "Detroit Tigers" and the player is pictured in another uniform, or like the '88 Topps Dickie Noles card it says in small print something about playing for the Tigers, or the player featured is in a Tigers uniform even though he is listed on another team, he goes in my team set collection. 

It's sort of hard for me to keep track of these because I don't have the full sets to look through to verify that I have these exceptions. The folks who published the team set book I am using (which is getting very near it's end) don't see it the way I see it. So I'm more or less at the mercy of either having it or not to be able to list it here. 

Three paragraphs about this lousy Kevin Ritz card. It may not be quality, but I's say the writers block has lifted for the time being.