(03-13-2016, 09:13 AM)hittinaway Wrote: There is a Conlon Baseball card collector who has a blog and maybe he might know. http://conloncards.blogspot.comThanks. This was very helpful and will probably answer other questions I have about these cards.
It's a pretty massive set and many of the cards do have prototypes and some with different border colors.
FYI - here's what I learned regarding these particular variations (cut and pasted from his site).
"The '91 Set was the first to be printed by Megacards in partnership with The Sporting News. The set consists of 330 cards released in 3 printings.
1st printing (Very Rare)
Cards 1-67 were labeled "HALL OF FAME" in the top right corner. Since no information is available suggesting this was ever sold as a full set, I have assumed the 1st printing only included cards 1-67, possibly distributed only to the hobby as "prototypes" of the coming full set.
2nd Printing (Rare)
The 2nd printing also was missing the MLB logo from all cards but the first 67 cards were labeled "HOF(+induction year)" in the top right corner. This is assumed to be a design change to include the induction year. Since there are cards numbered 68-330 that do not have the MLB logo, it is assumed the 2nd printing was, in fact, a 330 card set.
3rd Printing (Common)
The 3rd printing (and the most common) finally included the MLB logo on all 330 cards while the first 67 cards were labeled "HOF(+induction year)" in the top right corner - the same as the 2nd printing. This is the set most commonly found."
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