1988 Donruss Baseball Forum

Was this the manufacturer who started the SP cards in a set in the 80's?

Well more modern "vintage" cards not old school cards.  as these where created this way on purpose by the manufacturer in the modern vintage. the older cards were SP  due to other reasons I've read.

Oh heck no. This goes all the way back to when cards were first printed. Many, many sets in the past SP'd cards to make room on sheets for a print run. Go look at sets from the 40s and 50s, you'll see SPs in there as well.

Sorry I edited it a bit after I realized I needed to add more thoughts

There’s a nice little note in the trivia section for this set explaining why those were “SP’d” in this set. So pretty much in line with those dating back 50 years or more. Done more for production convenience than for the sake of intentionally creating a “chase”

And wouldn't be much of a chase when there were still 5 billion of the SP cards.

after reading the trivia info   "

• Cards marked as SP (short printed) from 648-660 are more difficult to find than the other 13 SP's in the lower 600s. These 26 cards listed as SP were apparently pulled from the printing sheet to make room for the 26 Bonus MVP inserts. Six of the checklist cards were done two different ways to reflect the inclusion or exclusion of the Bonus MVP cards in the wax packs."

I thought these might qualify for SSP for a moment reading that and then I came back to reality.. However I would (as everyone else) love to know a print run of this set and how many of these where printed.

However, after 35 years alot of these cards were damaged, destroyed, thrown away. I still hear someone is printing 90 Donruss 😂 but ... Still I see 1988 Donruss Boxes at shows so supply is still hanging around 

Millions. Literally millions. Not even kidding. There's a reason it's referred to as the Junk Wax (or Overproduced) Era.

Hmm, was that trivia note stolen from Beckett, or did Beckett steal it from TCDB?

https://www.beckett.com/baseball/1988/donruss/