Allan Kaye’s

Early Wrapper Redemptions – The Limited-Edition 1992 Fleer Rookie Sensations Promo Sheet

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I know 1991 Fleer is the more click-baity set, but how many of you sent in for one of these 1992 Fleer “limited-edition” Rookie Sensations promotional sheets?

I joke about them being “limited” because they’re numbered out of 250k!

I scanned the following advertisement for the sheets from the June 1992 issue of Allan Kaye’s Sports Cards News & Price Guides, which tells us getting one required ten 1992 Fleer Baseball wrappers plus a dollar for shipping and handling.

They showed up to your house in a solid manilla envelope along with the following letter from Fleer.

Top 75 All-Time Classic Baseball And Football Cards

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In a ‘sort of related’ follow-up to my post the other day about the Top 25 Most Expensive Baseball Cards In 1993, are the Top 75 All-Time Classic Baseball and Football Cards In 1992.

These came from the August 1992 issue of Allan Kaye’s Sports Cards News & Price Guides (Number 9). I call it a ‘sort of related’ follow-up because I flipped through this magazine just after I flipped through the Sports Cards Magazine that had the Top 25 list; they just happened to have been published about a year apart.

I do like that the Top 75 list is organized by year; it’s already rather subjective. Unfortunately for some fans, I don’t think the 1986 Donruss Jose Canseco or 1987 Fleer Will Clark would make the cut on such a list today, nor would the 1989 Pro Set William Perry or 1990 Action Packed Jim Plunkett.

Early 90’s Card Collectors Catalogues

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It’s incredible how many card collectors catalogs there were in the early 90s.

If you’re a hobby library collector, what’s funny is that despite massive distributions at the time, most of these don’t come up for sale very often (but they’re not much more expensive than a few dollars when they do). I hadn’t even heard of a few of these.

Also, things aren’t that different today. If we were to try to categorize the number of marketplaces that exist today, it would be pretty huge, too. Just think how many Facebook groups there are for sales alone.

PS, this ad is a scan from the April 1992 edition of Allan Kaye’s Sports Cards News & Price Guides.