Description

After six years of issuing "The Rookies" as a 56-card boxed set, 1992 Donruss The Rookies was expanded to 132-cards and distributed exclusively in packs. The card design is the same as the 1992 Donruss regular issue except that the two-tone blue color bars have been replaced by green. The set is arranged in alphabetical order and numbered on the back.

Prominent rookie cards in this set include Jeff Kent, Manny Ramirez, Matt Stairs, Tim Wakefield and Eric Young. In addition, an early card of Pedro Martinez is featured. The rookie selection was hindered by Donruss' decision to pull 20 players from the base set and include them in the "Phenoms" insert set -- one of the 20 was Mike Piazza. Piazza's Phenoms insert is one of only three cards issued of him in 1992, and the only one NOT a "true" rookie.

This would be the last Donruss The Rookies set issued until Donruss-Playoff revived the set in 2001.

Distribution

Wax: 36 packs per box, 12 cards per pack.

Jumbo: 30 cards per pack.

Reviews

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Wax Odds	Jumbo Odds
Base	132	-	?	?
Phenoms (Wax)	12	-	?	N/A
Phenoms (Jumbo)	8	-	N/A	1:1

Checklist

Base Set

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1 Kyle Abbott
2 Troy Afenir
3 Rich Amaral RC
4 Ruben Amaro
5 Billy Ashley RC
6 Pedro Astacio RC
7 Jim Austin
8 Robert Ayrault
9 Kevin Baez
10 Esteban Beltre
11 Brian Bohanon
12 Kent Bottenfield RC
13 Jeff Branson
14 Brad Brink
15 John Briscoe
16 Doug Brocail RC
17 Rico Brogna
18 J.T. Bruett
19 Jacob Brumfield
20 Jim Bullinger
21 Kevin Campbell
22 Pedro Castellano RC
23 Mike Christopher
24 Archi Cianfrocco RC
25 Mark Clark RC
26 Craig Colbert
27 Victor Cole RC
28 Steve Cooke RC
29 Tim Costo
30 Chad Curtis RC
31 Doug Davis
32 Gary DiSarcina
33 John Doherty RC
34 Mike Draper
35 Monty Fariss
36 Bien Figueroa
37 John Flaherty RC
38 Tim Fortugno
39 Eric Fox RC
40 Jeff Frye RC
41 Ramon Garcia
42 Brent Gates RC
43 Tom Goodwin
44 Buddy Groom RC
45 Jeff Grotewold
46 Juan Guerrero
47 Johnny Guzman RC
48 Shawn Hare RC
49 Ryan Hawblitzel RC
51 Butch Henry RC
52 Cesar Hernandez RC
53 Vince Horsman
54 Steve Hosey
55 Pat Howell
56 Peter Hoy
57 Jonathan Hurst RC
58 Mark Hutton RC
59 Shawn Jeter RC
60 Joel Johnston
61 Jeff Kent RC
62 Kurt Knudsen RC
63 Kevin Koslofski
64 Danny Leon
65 Jesse Levis
66 Tom Marsh
67 Ed Martel
68 Al Martin RC
69 Pedro Martinez
70 Derrick May
71 Matt Maysey
72 Russ McGinnis
73 Tim McIntosh
74 Jim McNamara
75 Jeff McNeely
76 Rusty Meacham
77 Tony Menendez
78 Henry Mercedes
79 Paul Miller
80 Joe Millette
81 Blas Minor
82 Dennis Moeller
83 Raul Mondesi
84 Rob Natal
85 Troy Neel RC
86 David Nied RC
88 Donovan Osborne
89 John Patterson RC
90 Roger Pavlik RC
91 Dan Peltier
92 Jim Pena
93 William Pennyfeather
94 Mike Perez
95 Hipolito Pichardo RC
96 Greg Pirkl RC
97 Harvey Pulliam
98 Manny Ramirez RC
99 Pat Rapp RC
100 Jeff Reboulet
101 Darren Reed
102 Shane Reynolds RC
103 Bill Risley
104 Ben Rivera
105 Henry Rodriguez
106 Rico Rossy
107 Johnny Ruffin
108 Steve Scarsone
109 Tim Scott
110 Steve Shifflett
111 Dave Silvestri
112 Matt Stairs RC
113 William Suero
114 Jeff Tackett
115 Eddie Taubensee
116 Rick Trlicek RC
117 Scooter Tucker
118 Shane Turner
119 Julio Valera
120 Paul Wagner RC
121 Tim Wakefield RC
122 Mike Walker
123 Bruce Walton
124 Lenny Webster
125 Bob Wickman
126 Mike Williams RC
127 Kerry Woodson
128 Eric Young RC
129 Kevin Young RC
130 Pete Young
131 Checklist 1-66
132 Checklist CL
87 Jerry Nielson
50 Bert Hefferman

Inserts

Phenoms

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Phenoms is a 20-card set featuring Donruss' picks of the very best rookies and young prospects. The first twelve cards were randomly inserted into 1992 Donruss The Rookies 12-card packs; while the last eight were inserted one per 1992 Donruss Rookies 30-card jumbo pack.

One of only three MLB-licensed cards of Mike Piazza issued in 1992 is featured within this set. However of the three (Bowman and Fleer Update), this is the only one that is not a "true" rookie card.

BC1 Moises Alou
BC2 Bret Boone
BC3 Jeff Conine
BC4 Dave Fleming
BC5 Tyler Green
BC6 Eric Karros
BC7 Pat Listach
BC8 Kenny Lofton
BC9 Mike Piazza
BC10 Tim Salmon
BC11 Andy Stankiewicz
BC12 Dan Walters
BC13 Ramon Caraballo
BC14 Brian Jordan
BC15 Ryan Klesko
BC16 Sam Militello
BC17 Frank Seminara
BC18 Salomon Torres
BC19 John Valentin
BC20 Wilfredo Cordero

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