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1998 Select Sell Sheet

Description

1998 Donruss Crusade is a 130-card, cross-brand insert. The first 40 cards (Denoted below with a "D") were randomly inserted into packs of 1998 Donruss Series One as a "stealth" insert, the next 30 into 1998 Leaf ("L"), and the next 30 into 1998 Donruss Update Series ("U"). Cards 101-130 were inserted into packs of 1998 Leaf Rookies & Stars.

The fronts feature color player photos with a Medieval design theme, printed on chromium stock with a holographic foil sheen that gives it the appearance of a Finest Refractor.

There are three different versions of each card:

Green: serial numbered to 250

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Purple: serial numbered to 100

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Red: serial numbered to 25

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All of the "Call to Arms" (CTA) subset cards that were officially released/packed-out were mistakenly printed without card numbers. No corrections to this error was made.

Donruss had plans for extending the Crusade set into 1999 and beyond, however with the bankruptcy of their parent Pinnacle Brands, those plans never came to fruition. However, in the years since a number of Crusades with card numbers above 130 have surfaced. It is that many of these cards were "backdoored" after the Pinnacle Brands bankruptcy.

Checklist

1 Tim Salmon U
2 Garret Anderson U
3 Jim Edmonds CTA L
4 Darin Erstad CTA L
5 Jason Dickson D
6 Todd Greene D
7 Roberto Alomar CTA D
8 Cal Ripken, Jr. D
9 Rafael Palmeiro CTA U
10 Brady Anderson U
11 Mike Mussina L
12 Mo Vaughn CTA D
13 Nomar Garciaparra D
14 Frank Thomas CTA U
15 Albert Belle CTA L
16 Mike Cameron D
17 Robin Ventura U
18 Manny Ramirez L
19 Jim Thome CTA L
20 Sandy Alomar, Jr. D
21 Dave Justice D
22 Matt Williams U
23 Tony Clark U
24 Bubba Trammell L
25 Justin Thompson D
26 Bob Higginson L
27 Kevin Appier D
28 Paul Molitor L
29 Chuck Knoblauch CTA U
30 Todd Walker L
31 Bernie Williams U
32 Derek Jeter CTA U
33 Tino Martinez D
34 Andy Pettitte L
35 Wade Boggs CTA L
36 Hideki Irabu D
37 Jose Canseco D
38 Jason Giambi U
39 Ken Griffey, Jr. D
40 Alex Rodriguez CTA L
41 Randy Johnson L
42 Edgar Martinez D
43 Jay Buhner CTA U
44 Juan Gonzalez CTA U
45 Will Clark D
46 Ivan Rodriguez L
47 Rusty Greer D
48 Roger Clemens L
49 Carlos Delgado U
50 Shawn Green D
51 Jose Cruz, Jr. D
52 Kenny Lofton D
53 Chipper Jones D
54 Andruw Jones CTA L
55 Greg Maddux U
56 John Smoltz CTA L
57 Tom Glavine U
58 Javy Lopez L
59 Fred McGriff L
60 Mark Grace U
61 Sammy Sosa CTA U
62 Kevin Orie D
63 Barry Larkin CTA U
64 Pokey Reese L
65 Deion Sanders D
66 Andres Galarraga L
67 Larry Walker D
68 Dante Bichette CTA D
69 Neifi Perez U
70 Eric Young L
71 Todd Helton D
72 Gary Sheffield CTA U
73 Moises Alou L
74 Bobby Bonilla D
75 Kevin Brown D
76 Ben Grieve L
77 Jeff Bagwell CTA U
78 Craig Biggio D
79 Mike Piazza L
80 Raul Mondesi U
81 Hideo Nomo CTA U
82 Wilton Guerrero D
83 Rondell White CTA U
84 Vladimir Guerrero CTA U
85 Pedro Martinez D
86 Edgardo Alfonzo D
87 Todd Hundley CTA U
88 Scott Rolen D
89 Francisco Cordova D
90 Jose Guillen D
91 Jason Kendall L
92 Ray Lankford D
93 Mark McGwire CTA D
94 Matt Morris D
95 Alan Benes L
96 Brian Jordan CTA U
97 Tony Gwynn L
98 Ken Caminiti CTA L
99 Barry Bonds CTA U
100 Shawn Estes D

Leaf Rookies & Stars Series

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101 Richard Hidalgo
102 Paul Konerko
103 Miguel Tejada
104 Fernando Tatis
105 Travis Lee
106 Wes Helms
107 Rich Butler
108 Mark Kotsay
109 Eli Marrero
110 David Ortiz
111 Juan Encarnacion
112 Jaret Wright
113 Livan Hernandez
114 Ron Wright
115 Ryan Christenson
116 Eric Milton
117 Brad Fullmer
118 Karim Garcia
119 Abraham Nunez
120 Ricky Ledee
121 Carl Pavano
122 Derrek Lee
123 A.J. Hinch
124 Brian Rose
125 Bobby Estalella
126 Kevin Millwood
127 Kerry Wood
128 Sean Casey
129 Russell Branyan
130 Magglio Ordonez

Unreleased Cards

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It appears that a number of additional Crusade cards were produced by Donruss for future 1998 baseball card sets, but were never officially released due to the bankruptcy of Pinnacle Brands. All players in the set were to have two Crusade styles for all three colors: a "base" and "Call to Arms" (CTA). However, the 2nd style for many players were never officially released due to the bankruptcy.

For example, the Ken Griffey, Jr. CTA card pictured was one of these unreleased cards that emerged on the secondary market after the bankruptcy - because Griffey, Jr. had a "base" Crusade that was officially released, his CTA subset was to be featured in sets that were never officially released.

Unlike the cards that were inserted into packs, all cards from the unreleased CTA subset are sequentially-numbered. None of the cards, however, are serial-numbered. Many collectors believe that one copy of the red and purple and two copies of the green of each player from this unreleased portion of the set were produced.

The following players and cards have been confirmed to exist:

131 Ken Griffey, Jr. CTA (Green, Purple, and Red)

141 Henry Rodriguez (Green, Purple, and Red)

145 Roberto Alomar (Green)

147 Manny Ramirez CTA (Green, Purple, and Red)

171 Craig Biggio CTA

176 Alex Rodriguez (Purple)

177 Greg Maddux CTA

178 Mike Piazza CTA (Green, Purple, and Red)

189 Mark McGwire

196 Mo Vaughn CTA

314 Frank Thomas (Green)

??? Mark Grace CTA (Green, Purple, and Red)

??? Albert Belle (Green)

??? Barry Bonds (Red)

??? Ryan Klesko (Red)

??? Vladimir Guerrero (Red)

??? Vinny Castilla (Green)

??? Will Clark CTA (Green)

??? Chuck Knoblauch (Green)

??? Barry Larkin (Green)

??? Kenny Lofton CTA (Green)

??? Raul Mondesi CTA (Green)

??? Andy Pettitte CTA (Green)

??? Tim Salmon CTA (Green)

??? John Smoltz (Green)

??? Cal Ripken, Jr. CTA (Red)

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-Many of the "Call to Arms" (CTA) subset cards were mistakenly printed without card numbers.
+All of the "Call to Arms" (CTA) subset cards that were officially released/packed-out were mistakenly printed without card numbers.  No corrections to this error was made.
-A number of Executive Promo/Sample cards are also known to exist.  These cards are serial-numbered either "XXX/250" (green), "XXX/100" (purple), or "XX/25" (red).  It is believed that these cards were produced for Donruss staff and were used in-house for final approval and quality control before production. Many collectors believe that 1 to 3 copies of each player for each color were produced.
 Donruss had plans for extending the Crusade set into 1999 and beyond, however with the bankruptcy of their parent Pinnacle Brands, those plans never came to fruition.  However, in the years since a number of Crusades with card numbers above 130 have surfaced.  It is that many of these cards were "backdoored" after the Pinnacle Brands bankruptcy.