2014 Donruss Baseball Cards

Can’t find how many 2014 Donruss / Panini rookie tickets that were printed. I know there’s not a lot.

I’m somewhere between 3 and 4 stars on this. Not to repeat what others have said, but I shall repeat what others have said:

This is ALMOST perfect. The fact that it is ALMOST perfect, loses it a bit for me. Definitely nostalgia-based! I’ve always thought cards of the 80s and early 90s were ugly, but for some reason, I love it! Cannot explain it.

Unlike Topps Heritage, this seems more….genuine. Heritage always feels forced to me. I dunno why.

And finally, as much as I want to, I cannot dock Panini for lacking an MLB license. Not their fault. The MLB are run by a bunch of corporate a-holes.

Like the inserts there is a problem though. So many insert sets yet so few per ratio. Advantage panini in order to complete without going to secondary market that’s a lot of box purches

Is there a hot-box, “numbered parallel in every pack” element to this product? Anyone? Anyone? Buehler? Buehler?

I have broken some of this product and this box is different.
Anyway, I love the tweaking and inclusion of auto parallels, many scarce, and the assortment of proofs etc.
What a fun, potentially rewarding break! Panini has clearly mastered the obscenely priced product, but this is no less compelling a brand, if for other reasons. Bravo Panin-O

Looking forward to the day when U.S.A. made card companies(Donruss, Upperdeck, Panini) can utilize the MLB logos again. A Topps rep responded to a phone call I made to their customer service department and said some of their baseball cards where made in China. “Americas pastime” made in China….no thank you.

My 1978 Topps Football card set is one of my most prized I own, and I never really cared about the logos being airbrushed out.
I congradulate the MLBPA for allowing market competition into the trading card industry after the MLB monopoly was instituted.
I like these cards a lot, but the SP’s are too difficult to collect for a 200 card set when you only get 8 of the first 45 in a box (diamond Kings and Rated rookies).
This ratio would work for a 700-800 card set, but is too low.
Otherwise great product, reminiscent of the best days of trading cards; the 80’s!

Excellent ! Great VARIETY OF PRIME CARDS . NOT TO
BAD REGULAR SET, KEEP TRYING…

Love the rebirth!

Without team logos, this set is a joke!

4��Question??? In putting this set into pages, why is it that that base set starts at 46?

I love the fact that Donruss is back, the look is good and the cards are better stock, etc.
I am SICK TO DEATH of Topps being the only company producing cards. They concentrate on selling high end cards for the money. I like to collect team sets so the more options, the better.
As far as team logos, come on man! who are all these whiners wanting team logos? They must be company men, the team logos are just to make money for MLB. Since MLB took over the cards, the merchandise, the websites, everything is now the same and twice as expensive. I buy cards for the players, I know which players are on my team, I don’t need a logo to tell me.
I almost quit collecting a few years ago but when Panini came out with a set a couple years ago, I had hope. Topps had pretty much priced me out of the market except for the base set, now I can get some variety!

When I heard that Donruss was coming back with a style that was a nod to the eighties and nineties I could barely contain myself. And as pictures and previews began to filter through the Web my excitement grew to levels I hadn’t experienced since I was twelve years old and ripping into packs of 91 Donruss just to see what they looked like in the new year. This is the first time I’d been exited about a product’s base set in well over fifteen years. And when my three boxes arrived in the mail today, I gloriously ripped into them with the passion I felt as a kid. And my impression of this long-awaited product can be summed up in just one word: almost. It’s almost great. It’s almost perfect. It’s almost just like back then. Except it isn’t. It’s a 200-card base set that you cannot complete in three boxes. It’s huge hideous box-toppers. It’s got parallels–but not too many–that are a bit confusing as to their rarity. It’s got inserts (okay Panini, enough is enough), and at the end of my rip, though I was overall very happy, I couldn’t help but think, “what if it was just a little bit more?” I think I would prefer the artist rendition on the Diamond Kings, which, to their credit, are part of the base set instead of inserts, although they’re short-printed, which is frustrating. I love having Rated Rookies that might or might not be big names, though again as with the Diamond Kings, they’re short-printed. Even considering that, there were still two other cards missing from my base set completion–OUT OF THREE BOXES–in a 200 card set. But enough of that. No guarantees, right? I love this product. What I’d love even more is a full, comprehensive set. Bring back the 700-card monster, I say! And, between you and me, not only are the standard autographs hideously ugly, but I kept asking myself, “who?”, and that’s something auto seekers should beware of. I got five Game Gear from my 3 boxes, and, since they only promise one per box, I suppose I should feel lucky. Except I don’t really care. Jerseys are overdone, not very original, though I didn’t buy for originality, and frankly I didn’t even put penny sleeves on them. The Elite Series is back…almost. These are beautiful cards, along with the Dominator shiney green things. Very nice when you pull one of those, especially considering in the nineties, if you’re like me, you ripped twenty boxes and never got one. Overall I’d say this set, if done with a very large checklist, prettier autographs from people we know, more standardized print runs for the parallels (again, thankfully there aren’t that many), a few less insert sets, would be, dare I say…perfect. That classic look is a winner, and, just like in 91, I’ll be ripping in next year, just as excited.

Pretty cool. Just pulled one of the recollection signature cards of Fred McGriff. So what are the details on the wrapper redemption deal?

same with me james, my box had an extra game gear mem card.

Just opened a hobby box…LOVED it!!! Going to buy more!

Thinks a really good set, to build for the price. Just wanted to add, pulled 2 memorabilia cards from one of my boxes.

Are these going to come out in retail?

Love it! Yes no logos but a great change from the same old topps design

Take a look and see what I meant when I compared these images:
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I was looking forward to the Donruss name coming back to baseball cards even using their retro logo, but without the team logos it just seems to be a little lacking. Reminds me of cards I had from Post brand cerial back in the 80s.

I’m glad they didn’t put a lot of retired players in the base set!

Hey Ryan,
Panini just announced a wrapper redemption for 3 bonus rated rookie card that will be 201, 202, and 203, but have not released who these cards will feature.

If only they had team logos…

I am excited to see the name Donruss back and the base set looks fine. However, I am angered by the Team MVPs insert set. There are several teams that were left out entirely while some teams had multiple players. The MVP subset always featured one player from EVERY team just like Diamond Kings.

Not too bad looking

Is there going to be a retail version of this?

Wouldnt it be great it they had a license to put team logos on them….