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C.A.: 1990 Donruss Joey Cora

(Today is "Draw a Picture of a Bird Day." I hope everyone knows what kind of bird they should be drawing. My scrawled-on-a-post-it-note-in-10-minutes contribution is below. But first, Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 238th in a series): To me, 1990 Donruss is one of the most boring card sets that has ever been made. You can enthuse over the abundant error cards or the Aqueous test cards for a lifetime, but with the exception of the Bart Giamatti card, all I'll ever see is one boring photo after another enclosed in that same oppressive red frame. So, with the very little time I have today, I made it my mission to find one interesting thing to write about from the 1990 Donruss set. I shuffled through the 1990 Donruss cards that I own -- they are in order by team, but I care so little for the set that I noticed cards just dropped in there indiscriminately, a stray Pirate amid the Indians, for example -- and became more desperate as I came almost to the end witho...