I Need Some Help

First off, the pictured card has absolutely nothing to do with this post.  I was searching teh Googles looking for a picture of "piles of Donruss cards."  The internet, which is apparently infinitely more intelligent than me, returned a picture of Denver Pyle who was Uncle Jessie on Dukes of Hazzard.

I was completely unaware that TDOH had it's own card set, and that led me to search out those cards. That in turn, led me to a picture of Daisy Duke looking like an Oompa Loompa while Uncle Jessie gives the old man creeper look over her shoulder.  Then I remembered that someone I know is somehow related to Catherine Bach (Daisy Duke), and I think it's his/her mother-in-law.  

As an aside to an aside, I also recently learned that my wife is related to this guy...

Somehow I am not surprised it took over seven years for me to learn that nugget.

Anyways, the point of this post was to ask my readers about their knowledge of Donruss cards (not Denver Pyle).  I am creating want lists for all the Donruss base cards I am missing.  My goal is to collect each base set from 1981 to 2005, achieve what I call Donruss Nirvana, and then be freed from the shackles of collecting any more Donruss cards EVER AGAIN. 

My question is...Besides 2001 Donruss, do any other Donruss sets include short prints?  Like 2002 through 2005?  My 12 year old catalog that goes by a name that I won't speak of only goes up to 2001, and I cannot find anything on the "reliable" internet to confirm or deny the elusive short print in the 2002-2005 Donruss sets. 

You see, I hate short prints.  My completist collector brain finds them to be an abhorrent affront to complete set collecting.  Thus, I refuse to collect them in my sets.  A perfect example would be 2001 Donruss.  The set is 220 cards, but only 150 of them are readily available.  The last 70 cards are short printed to a ridiculous quantity of 2001 cards each.  If I were King, those #$@#%@#$ who came up with this idea would be first against the wall said this Paranoid Android.

So, does any one else know of short prints in the Donruss base set catalog?  Gracias!

So You Think You're a Collector? - Donruss Edition

Since I had so much fun torturing all you collectors with your knowledge of Bowman base cards, I thought this time I’d unleash Donruss on the masses. I am in the process of sorting and organizing my Donruss cards, and while it is not giving me fits like Bowman did, I am still left puzzled (bad pun intended) on some of the years. 

During the last quiz, Nick came achingly close to matching all of the Bowman base cards with their release years. I think he switched up 1996 and 1997, but regardless, that was a great showing on Nick’s part. 

As for the Donruss quiz, I had to use the digital eraser on almost every example because Donruss had the habit of putting the year on most of its releases. I expect a lot better scores on this quiz because most of us are pretty familiar with Donruss. However, I imagine that there is going to be some mix up with 82 and 83 Donruss, and then all out chaos from 1994 to 2005. 

So sharpen your pencils, dust of your erasers and grab some scratch paper because it’s quiz time. Your task is to put the cards in order by year WITHOUT consulting the internet.  Your answer will be a string of letters starting with 1981's letter and ending with 2005's letter.  Winner gets bragging rights as a true Donruss Collector...

 

A	B	C	D
E	F	G	H
I	J	K	L
M	N	O	P
Q	R	S	T
U	V	W

Donruss for the Taking

CLOSED - No more takers, please.  Sorry!

I'm planning on doing some spring cleaning this weekend, and hope to cull all of the singles out of my Donruss collection.  I'm sitting on three 3,200 count boxes, and probably three quarters of that is heading out the door.

Soooooo, if you for some unknown God-forsaken reason need any Donruss cards from 1981 until 1996, leave a link to your blog or want list in the comment section.  I'll gladly set aside anything that I have to help complete your collection. 

The sheer amount of cards in my house is beginning to make me nauseous.  Time to clutter someone else's closet!

I'm looking at you...

I'll eventually, GASP, put up want lists for some serious junk.