One of the things Donruss did starting in their second year was to start the Diamond Kings series. They would take a drawing of the star player from the team, and give them their own special card. Donruss started this in 1982, and continued it through the 1991 series. They then did it again in 2003 and 2004. Here is a look at the Mariners players that were deemed to be "Diamond Kings."
1982 Richie Zisk
If anyone has this card, I'm open to a trade.
1983 Floyd Bannister
1984 Matt Young
If anyone has this card, I'm open to a trade. This is one of my Prime 9 cards.
1985 Alvin Davis
If anyone has this card, I'm open to a trade.
1986 Phil Bradley
1987 Jim Presley
1988 Mark Langston
1989 Harold Reynolds
1990 Ken Griffey Jr.
1991 Edgar Martinez
If anyone has this card, I'm open to a trade.
2003 Ichiro Suzuki
2004 Ichiro Suzuki
There you have the short, but beautiful run of Diamond Kings from Donruss.
As a side note, I can already tel it is going to be a long season in the Emerald City. This team is going SUPER YOUNG, and will struggle to win much. It is hard see our superstars like Felix, and Ichiro have to put up with year after year.
I love the Diamond Kings cards from the 80's... sweet collection... thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI was planning to do this with the Cubs in a few weeks; really, I was! Donruss did put out Diamond Kings in '92 - '98 and 2001 - 2002. The difference is that those years the cards were inserts instead of a part of the base set. The '01 and '02 cards were also numbered to 2500. And how do I know this? Because I just bought a few of these for the post I was going to run in a few weeks!!
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