1991 Donruss baseball Elite card's

Guru

I got a case of this stuff from a friend yesterday. Does anyone know what the odds are of pulling an Elite card from the series 1 boxes? Thanks!

ThoseBackPages

i think they fall one in every 10 cases, something like that

1980scollector

I pulled Rickey Henderson and George Brett in the same case in 1991. It was two boxes and got one in each box.

I am not sure I ever pulled another one in probably 100 boxes in that 20+ year period.

Largentcollector

<< <i>I pulled Rickey Henderson and George Brett in the same case in 1991. It was two boxes and got one in each box.

I am not sure I ever pulled another one in probably 100 boxes in that 20+ year period. >>



Along the same lines I think 1991 topps set cards were even less than one per ten cases and I pulled two 1975 topps commons in back to back boxes. I'll never see another topps set card in a 1991 box again lol.

StanTheManMusial

Odds are long. I opened 1 sealed case and half of another and didn't receive one back in 1991. The next year, 1992, my buddy who owned a chain of convenient stores came by my house one day and had a single box laying in his truck. I asked him what he was going to do with the box. He told me nothing in particular. Maybe stick it in his store. About that time, he reaches over and grabs it, hands it to me, and says 'if you get anything good, you can give me $30 for the box'. After he left, I started busting packs and hit the mother of all Elite cards at the time, the Frank Thomas. It booked for like $400 which was big money back then. Great memories..

Guru

<< <i>Odds are long. I opened 1 sealed case and half of another and didn't receive one back in 1991. The next year, 1992, my buddy who owned a chain of convenient stores came by my house one day and had a single box laying in his truck. I asked him what he was going to do with the box. He told me nothing in particular. Maybe stick it in his store. About that time, he reaches over and grabs it, hands it to me, and says 'if you get anything good, you can give me $30 for the box'. After he left, I started busting packs and hit the mother of all Elite cards at the time, the Frank Thomas. It booked for like $400 which was big money back then. Great memories.. >>



+1

BunchOBull

For such common cards, it sure feels awesome when you hit one. Prior to the 1995 set, I only ever hit one, a Gary Sheffield out of '93 Donruss.


My holy grail was a 1992 Elite Frank Thomas with the serial number 00035/10000; it wasn't pulled until 2011 and I was lucky enough to purchase it.

byronscott4ever

I recall hearing about one pulled from a shop years later when it was junk wax and after I read that those cards had metal in them and people had used detectors on them. Not sure of the truth in that though.