1992 Donruss

I like to refer to these as Donruss' comeback set. Ok, I have never actually referred to these as Donruss' comeback set, but I would like to. Donruss leapt ahead of most of their competition in base sets in 1992. You can tell that desktop publishing was really starting to take off around this time. The gradiated blue borders (green on The Rookies of course...) really are a nice, simple touch to these. 

Donruss also figured out that the gold foil worked much better as an accentuation on their Diamond King inserts, which were the best looking DK's every produced. The cards are printed on a nice thick white card stock with a glossy finish. While this is not one of my favorite Donruss issues, it at least showed that they were done appealing to kids with their base set. Consider this a springboard to some of the fantastic cards they produced in the mid-90's.

The 1992 Donruss Detroit Tigers:

42 Andy Allanson

85 Mickey Tettleton

111 Frank Tanana

131 BIll Gullickson

164 Alan Trammell

206 Cecil Fielder

232 Milt Cuyler

253 Mike Henneman

285 Milt Cuyler

328 Tony Phillips

349 Travis Fryman

375 Paul Gibson

443 Lloyd Moseby

486 Scott Aldred

512 Mark Salas

532 Rob Deer

565 Walt Terrell

607 Jerry Don Gleaton

633 Mark Leiter

675 Scott Livingstone

709 John Cerutti

749 Skeeter Barnes

DK-25 Tony Phillips Diamond King

This was the last year of The Rookies as we would know them. If that didn't make you shed a tear, perhaps the list of Tigers will do so:

17 Rico Brogna

33 John Doherty

44 Buddy Groom

48 Shawn Hare

62 Kurt Knudsen