Bobby Bonilla

Dick Perez’s Original Artwork For The 1989 Donruss Bobby Bonilla Diamond Kings Card

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Here’s the original artwork Dick Perez painted for the 1989 Donruss Bobby Boniila #2 Diamond Kings card.

Ron Oser Enterprises offered it in a lot with a few other signed Perez originals in April 2001. I think the piece is 11” x 17”. I previously shared the Mike Schmidt card from this lot on the blog.

Here’s the final card, followed by a side-by-side comparison.

The final card’s colors may have been touched up, but the scan of the original art from a small picture in an old catalog probably isn’t super accurate either.

Don’t forget to check out The Original Artwork Archive for more, and happy collecting!

A Bobby Bonilla Advertisement For Ultra PRO Platinum Hologram Pages

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Bobby Bonilla was a spokesman for Ultra PRO in early 1992. Do you think they’re still paying him today, like the Mets?

If you weren’t tracking:

After being traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers part way through the 1998 season, he signed with the New York Mets for a second time in 1999. When the Mets wanted to release him at the end of the year, he negotiated a settlement whereby the Mets would pay him $1.19 million on July 1 every year from 2011 through 2035, a date that has become known in Mets fandom as “Bobby Bonilla Day”. He is also paid $500,000 by the Orioles every year from 2004 to 2028 due to them also having a deferred contract with him.

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PS, I scanned the Ultra PRO advertisement from the April 1992 issue of Trading Cards Magazine.