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Moving up to 1991 today. My wife and I officially divorced that summer ending our eight years of marriage but my cards kept me sane. Donruss brought back their Leaf product again that year plus added their inaugural Studio set, Topps gave us the first Stadium Club issue and Fleer countered with their Ultra line. That gave me ten main sets to collect, Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Score, Upper Deck, Bowman, Leaf, Studio, Stadium Club and Ultra in addition to their update sets, an influx of unlicensed cards and regional issues. By now it was really becoming overwhelming to collect everything, but I tried. Here are nine cards from 1991 that I have in my collection.

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1991 Conlon TSN Prototypes #145 Babe Ruth Color DP (Another set issued in 1991 was the Conlon TSN set. In conjunction with The Sporting News, Megacards issued various prototype cards to preview their soon to be released regular issue sets featuring the photography of Charles Conlon. I've spent hours reading the backs of my Conlon cards. This particular card featuring a beautiful colorized shot of a young Babe Ruth in his Red Sox uniform is a prototype produced and distributed to collectors and dealers at the 12th National Sports Collectors Convention in Anaheim in July, 1991.)
1991 MSA Holsum Discs #12 Rickey Henderson (This disc came in a package of Holsum Sliced Bread and was produced by MSA. Holsum Bakeries originated in Chicago.)
1991 Mets WIZ #338 Nolan Ryan (This is from a 450-card commemorative New York Mets set sponsored by WIZ Home Entertainment Centers and AT&T. The cards were distributed on 15-card perforated sheets at three different Mets home games in 1991 and supposedly featured every player to ever appear for the New York Mets.)

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1991 Pacific Ryan 7th No-Hitter #2 Nolan Ryan/No-Hitter Number 7 (Pacific Trading Cards released their first tribute to Nolan Ryan set in 1991 and this is one of a seven-card insert set that was randomly inserted in the foil packs.)
1991 Stadium Club #388 Jeff Bagwell RC Autographed (This Bagwell rookie from Topps inaugural Stadium Club release was signed by Jeff in gold ink.)
1991 Studio Previews #2 Roger Clemens (Donruss released these special Studio Preview cards in their retail factory sets. Each Donruss set contained four preview cards. I traded for a number of these in 1991 from the friend of a friend. I traded several of my vintage football cards including an O.J. Simpson card and in hindsight, I probably didn't make a very good deal but I didn't collect football cards and didn't mind getting rid of them.)

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1991 Topps Archives '53 #82 Mickey Mantle (About eight years after Topps released their 1983 Topps Archives 1952 Reprint set, they got around to releasing this 1953 reprint set.)
1991 Topps Desert Shield #170 Carlton Fisk (I recently showed you a Jose Canseco card from this Desert Shield set. Here is another card from that set featuring a great action shot of Cecil Fielder rumbling into home plate as hard-nosed catcher, Carlton Fisk concentrates on the incoming ball.)
1991 Upper Deck #SP1 Michael Jordan SP/Shown batting in/White Sox uniform (Upper Deck inserted this special short print card of "His Airness" in random packs of their product.)