1990 Baseball Uncut card sheet

Set of Starting Lineup uncut 1990 Baseball sheets. The Nolan Ryan sheet is a blank back proof sheet with a quality control stamp on the back. The Ken Griffey Jr. sheet has the '1989' date stamp on the back. As most know there were two versions of the Griffey Jr. rookie cards released, one dated 1990 and the other dated 1989.

1990 Football Uncut card sheet

 



The 1990 Uncut card sheets were changed to just 36 cards per sheet for all three sports, but like previous years the star players were printed in multiples while rookies like Cris Carter and Doug Flutie are short printed once per sheet. One of the 1990 Uncut football sheets features the exceptionally rare unreleased 'Al Toon' card.

1989 Football Uncut card sheet

Like the baseball card sheet the 1989 football card sheets featured 110 cards per sheet and the star players were printed in multiples while the regional players like Bill Fralic were just one per sheet.

1988 Baseball Uncut card sheet

1988 Sheet One

 

1988 Sheet Two  

 

These are my two uncut 1988 baseball card sheets. It includes the complete 124 baseball cards in the 1988 set. It also includes the eight unreleased 1988 baseball cards including the rare Goose Gossage card. The all-star players were printed five to a sheet while there is only one of  the regional cards like Nolan Ryan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1988 Backer board Proofs

 

 

These are the original cardboard backer proofs for the 1988 baseball, basketball, and football set. This is rare set, maybe the only set known. There are a few differences from the final released packages. The bottom corners are square and the hang tab is oval instead of an 'L' shape. The wording on the baseball and basketball is the same as the released, but the football package includes Walter Payton & Bo Jackson's name which were stricken from the released card. The logo on front of the football card was also recolored slightly before release.

1997 Yankee Stadium Proof cards

1997 cardboard proofs featuring Yankee Stadium on the front. Usually Kenner just used one style of cardboard packaging per set, but 1997 was an odd year. Kenner issued figures with two different type of cardboard graphics. One featured the American League teams and the other featured the National league teams.

1992 Starting Lineup Football Proof Posters

This is a small collection of unfolded proof posters from 1992. In 1992 Kenner tried a new concept of including a 11"x14" poster with the SLU. It was a neat novelty, but  the posters has to be folded up tightly to be included in the package which caused most to be creased beyond recognition.

1996 NBA Centers prototype box w/ Shaq

 

This is a prototype box for the NBA Centers Club set. The original concept cards feature Shaq in his Orlando Magic uniform instead of his Lakers uniform. It's slightly bigger than the released box as well which is shown below.