1991 Donruss

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, the wheels on the bus go.....ah, screw it. Donruss hit rock bottom in '91 with these turds. They hijacked the '86 design and released these in two series with two different color schemes so we could swear at them twice. This is one of those cases where the cards themselves say more than I ever could. The Cecil Fielder Diamond King card is not even worth showing.

The 1991 Donruss Detroit Tigers:

3 Cecil Fielder Diamond King

40 Milt Cuyler

65 Mark Salas

76 Mike Henneman

118 Alan Trammell

133 Lance McCullers

174 Lou Whitaker

188 Lloyd Moseby

230 Mike Heath

245 Jeff Robinson

286 Tony Phillips

301 Chet Lemon

342 Dave Bergman

353 Paul Gibson

397 Cecil Fielder MVP

422 Scott Aldred

451 Cecil Fielder

492 Jack Morris

508 Frank Tanana

549 Steve Searcy

563 John Shelby

605 Clay Parker

620 Edwin Nunez

661 Jerry Don Gleaton

675 Dan Petry

717 Walt Terrell

728 Gary Ward

729 Rob Deer

768 Travis Fryman

Donruss added their MVP insert cards to the base set in '91, and replaced them with Highlights insert cards, which weren't really insert cards either. They were just numbered like they were.

BC-5 Cecil Fielder

They continued with their Rookies box set, this time fooling us by making them red instead of green. Which makes me wonder. Series 1 had blue fronts and blue backs. Series 2 had green fronts and green backs. The Rookies had red fronts and......slightly different green backs? I don't know, and I don't care. Hell, we didn't even get the good Leiter brother.

6 Milt Cuyler

29 Mark Leiter

53 Rusty Meacham

The one saving grace is that this would be the end of the crappy era for Donruss. They would come up with some nicer cards in the years to follow, but good god are these awful.

EDIT: Thanks to my new friend and Tiger collector Jon for telling me about one I have missed.

1991 Donruss Grand Slammers:

7 Cecil Fielder