1989 Donruss

Now we are finally getting to some nice cards. Oh wait, no we aren't. I've still got to do '89 Donruss. It's almost impossible to believe these aren't the worst Donruss set. My only guess is that two guys did different designs for these, and then flipped a coin to see who got to do the top and bottom and who got to do the sides. As it turns out, nobody won.

I mean you've got rainbow colors with no relation to the teams pictures combined with awful black and blacker bars down the sides. These look like something Yahoo would let you create when making an avatar. Not even a Tigers card of one of my all-time favorites (Fred Lynn) can save this horrible mess.

The 1989 Donruss Detroit Tigers:

18 Jeff Robinson DK

29 Steve Searcy

60 Gary Pettis

62 Guillermo Hernandez

90 Frank Tanana

116 Matt Nokes

153 Ted Power

178 Doyle Alexander

180 Alan Trammell

209 Chet Lemon

234 Jack Morris

271 Mike Heath

296 Walt Terrell

298 Lou Whitaker

327 Mike Henneman

352 Luis Salazar

389 Dave Bergman

415 Jim Walewander

417 Pat Sheridan

445 Paul Gibson

470 Jeff Robinson

508 Tom Brookens

533 Darrell Evans

535 Eric King

563 Fred Lynn

BC-17 Alan Trammell MVP

The Donruss Rookies weren't much better:

17 Torey Lovullo

39 Mike Brumley

Donruss introduced their Traded set in 1989. Still no winners here:

9T Chris Brown

17T Ken Williams

50T Charles Hudson

As bad as these were, they would still be no match for what Donruss would release the year after.....