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The game's base set consists of 336 cards sold in 80-card starter decks and 12-card booster packs. [1] An expansion called 1995 Expansion Teams was released in December 1995 and contained 98 cards and focused on the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars. [1] In early 1996, Donruss sold its sports card and card-game properties to Pinnacle.
Again, Donruss issued cards on the bottom of wax boxes. The 60-card "Action All-Stars" changed slightly. The set was now called "All-Stars" and featured players that were involved in the 1985 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Cards were very similar to the standard set, and backs of the cards displayed each players All-Star game statistics.
The game was said to resemble Strat-O-Matic in the amount of game detail. [1]Gameplay involved using only one type of card, the Player card. Each Player had 17 statistics. Offensive players would play a card representing the type of swing a batter is using, while the defensive manager would choose the pitch with a card play
Donruss Prototype Cards (ca. 1996) – These extremely rare prototypes, developed by Donruss and NXT Games in 1996, featured early iterations of the cards as full bleed (or borderless) printings. The backsides of these prototype cards indicate the game was originally titled "The X-Files Interactive Card Game."
A rookie card is a trading card that is the first to feature an athlete after that athlete has participated in the highest level of competition within their sport. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Collectors may value these first appearances more than subsequent card issues.
James Beckett was a statistics professor before launching Beckett Media. [3] In the 1970s, Beckett introduced some of the initial price guides for the baseball card industry, providing more detailed information on specific card prices compared to the newsletters that collectors were accustomed to. [4]
The 1951 Bowman is the only recognized rookie card of Mickey Mantle who is the most collected figure in the industry. [47] [48] 33 $720,000 $720,000 Michael Jordan: 1986 Fleer Reg. Issue #57 PSA GM-MT 10 January 30, 2021 Goldin Auctions Two separate sales of $720,000 each set the record for most expensive Michael Jordan Rookie Cards. 34 ...
Launched by Topps in the 2007–08 season, Match Attax, the official Premier League trading card game, is the best selling boys collectable in the UK – with around 1.5m collectors in the UK – and with global sales it is also the biggest selling sports trading card game in the world. [50] [51]