Always Be Collecting: 1990 Fleer

1990 Fleer

Base Set: 660 cards (one series)
Inserts:

• All-Stars: 12 cards (wax and cello exclusive)
• Soaring Stars: 12 cards (jumbo exclusive)
• League Leaders: 6 cards (rack exclusive)
• Box Bottoms: 28 cards
• World Series: 12 cards (factory set exclusive)

Packaging: 36 pack, 15-card waxboxes; 24 pack, 33-card cello packs; 24 pack, 45-card rack boxes; 24 pack, 43-card jumbo boxes; factory sets
Notable cards: Sammy Sosa, Larry Walker, Juan Gonzalez and David Justice RCs, Decade Greats subset errors.
Other Notes:

• One of the most (if not the most) overproduced baseball card sets ever.
• Design recycled for the 2004 Fleer Tradition set.
• First year for separate Hobby/retail factory sets.
• Last year for cellophane-wrapped "cello" packs.
• Debut of poly-wrapped "jumbo" packs.
  
• Rare bilingual version sold in Canada.

Full Set (factory): $15 (NmMT)


1990 Fleer Update

Base Set: 132 cards
Packaging: Hobby exclusive factory set
Notable Cards: Frank Thomas and John Olerud RCs
Other Notes:

• Unopened factory sets make a fine paperweight or door stop.
  

Full Set (factory): $4 (NmMT)