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1991 Ultra wax box

Description

1991 Ultra is a 400 card set and was Fleer's response to "premium" brands like Upper Deck and Donruss' Leaf. The set is ordered alphabetically by player then by team. Subsets include Major League Prospects (373-390), Great Performances (391-396) and Checklists (397-400). There is also a ten-card "Gold Team" insert. There are no notable rookie cards in the set.

Fleer claimed in their original press release that production of Ultra would be limited to 15 percent of the 1991 Fleer Baseball.

The set was originally titled "Fleer Elite" but had to be changed after Donruss introduced the Elite Series inserts.

Distribution

Foil: 36 packs per box, 14 cards plus one team logo sticker per pack.

Reviews

1991 Ultra received a poor review in the December 1991 issue of Beckett Baseball Card Monthly. The set was featured in the “Card Critic” column titled “Ultra Shaky”. Chuck Roethel had several negative remarks such as “a general yawn”, “may not seem as exciting as other premium sets” and “crying for help”. He also bemoaned the absence of rookie cards for Jeff Bagwell, Juan Gonzalez, Scott Erickson & Mike Timlin but still felt Fleer did a decent job with player selection. In contrast, Mr. Roethel gave a glowing review for the Team Gold subset describing it as “an almost perfect card” and stated, “This is how the entire set should have looked”.

Insertion Ratios

Cards	Total Cards	Numbered To	Odds
Base	400	-	?
Gold Team	10	-	1:4.5

Checklist

Base Set

1 Steve Avery

2 Jeff Blauser

3 Francisco Cabrera

4 Ron Gant

5 Tom Glavine

6 Tommy Gregg

7 David Justice

8 Oddibe McDowell

9 Greg Olson

10 Terry Pendleton

11 Lonnie Smith

12 John Smoltz

13 Jeff Treadway

14 Glenn Davis

15 Mike Devereaux

16 Leo Gomez

17 Chris Hoiles

18 Dave Johnson

19 Ben McDonald

20 Randy Milligan

21 Gregg Olson

22 Joe Orsulak

23 Bill Ripken

24 Cal Ripken

25 David Segui

26 Craig Worthington

27 Wade Boggs

28 Tom Bolton

29 Tom Brunansky

30 Ellis Burks

31 Roger Clemens

32 Mike Greenwell

33 Greg A. Harris

34 Daryl Irvine

35 Mike Marshall

36 Tim Naehring

37 Tony Pena

38 Phil Plantier

39 Carlos Quintana

40 Jeff Reardon

41 Jody Reed

42 Luis Rivera

43 Jim Abbott

44 Chuck Finley

45 Bryan Harvey

46 Donnie Hill

47 Jack Howell

48 Wally Joyner

49 Mark Langston

50 Kirk McCaskill

51 Lance Parrish

52 Dick Schofield

53 Lee Stevens

54 Dave Winfield

55 George Bell

56 Damon Berryhill

57 Mike Bielecki

58 Andre Dawson

59 Shawon Dunston

60 Joe Girardi

61 Mark Grace

62 Mike Harkey

63 Les Lancaster

64 Greg Maddux

65 Derrick May

66 Ryne Sandberg

67 Luis Salazar

68 Dwight Smith

69 Hector Villanueva

70 Jerome Walton

71 Mitch Williams

72 Carlton Fisk

73 Scott Fletcher

74 Ozzie Guillen

75 Greg Hibbard

76 Lance Johnson

77 Steve Lyons

78 Jack McDowell

79 Dan Pasqua

80 Melido Perez

81 Tim Raines

82 Sammy Sosa

83 Cory Snyder

84 Bobby Thigpen

85 Frank Thomas

86 Robin Ventura

87 Todd Benzinger

88 Glenn Braggs

89 Tom Browning UER

90 Norm Charlton

91 Eric Davis

92 Rob Dibble

93 Bill Doran

94 Mariano Duncan UER

95 Billy Hatcher

96 Barry Larkin

97 Randy Myers

98 Hal Morris

99 Joe Oliver

100 Paul O'Neill

101 Jeff Reed ERR

102 Jose Rijo

103 Chris Sabo ERR

104 Beau Allred UER

105 Sandy Alomar Jr.

106 Carlos Baerga UER

107 Albert Belle

108 Jerry Browne

109 Tom Candiotti

110 Alex Cole

111 John Farrell ERR

112 Felix Fermin

113 Brook Jacoby

114 Chris James UER

115 Doug Jones

116 Steve Olin ERR

117 Greg Swindell

118 Turner Ward

119 Mitch Webster UER

120 Dave Bergman

121 Cecil Fielder

122 Travis Fryman

123 Mike Henneman

124 Lloyd Moseby

125 Dan Petry

126 Tony Phillips

127 Mark Salas

128 Frank Tanana

129 Alan Trammell

130 Lou Whitaker

131 Eric Anthony

132 Craig Biggio

133 Ken Caminiti

134 Casey Candaele

135 Andujar Cedeno

136 Mark Davidson

137 Jim Deshaies

138 Mark Portugal

139 Rafael Ramirez

140 Mike Scott

141 Eric Yelding

142 Gerald Young

143 Kevin Appier

144 George Brett

145 Jeff Conine

146 Jim Eisenreich

147 Tom Gordon

148 Mark Gubicza

149 Bo Jackson

150 Brent Mayne

151 Mike Macfarlane

152 Brian McRae

153 Jeff Montgomery

154 Bret Saberhagen

155 Kevin Seitzer

156 Terry Shumpert

157 Kurt Stillwell

158 Danny Tartabull

159 Tim Belcher

160 Kal Daniels

161 Alfredo Griffin

162 Lenny Harris

163 Jay Howell

164 Ramon Martinez

165 Mike Morgan

166 Eddie Murray

167 Jose Offerman

168 Juan Samuel

169 Mike Scioscia

170 Mike Sharperson

171 Darryl Strawberry

172 Greg Brock

173 Chuck Crim

174 Jim Gantner

175 Ted Higuera

176 Mark Knudson

177 Tim McIntosh

178 Paul Molitor

179 Dan Plesac

180 Gary Sheffield

181 Bill Spiers

182 B.J. Surhoff

183 Greg Vaughn

184 Robin Yount

185 Rick Aguilera

186 Greg Gagne

187 Dan Gladden

188 Brian Harper

189 Kent Hrbek

190 Gene Larkin

191 Shane Mack

192 Pedro Munoz

193 Al Newman

194 Junior Ortiz

195 Kirby Puckett

196 Kevin Tapani

197 Dennis Boyd

198 Tim Burke

199 Ivan Calderon

200 Delino DeShields

201 Mike Fitzgerald

202 Steve Frey

203 Andres Galarraga

204 Marquis Grissom

205 Dave Martinez

206 Dennis Martinez

207 Junior Noboa

208 Spike Owen

209 Scott Ruskin

210 Tim Wallach

211 Daryl Boston

212 Vince Coleman

213 David Cone

214 Ron Darling

215 Kevin Elster

216 Sid Fernandez

217 John Franco

218 Dwight Gooden

219 Tom Herr

220 Todd Hundley

221 Gregg Jefferies

222 Howard Johnson

223 Dave Magadan

224 Kevin McReynolds

225 Keith Miller

226 Mackey Sasser

227 Frank Viola

228 Jesse Barfield

229 Greg Cadaret

230 Alvaro Espinoza

231 Bob Geren

232 Lee Guetterman

233 Mel Hall

234 Andy Hawkins UER

235 Roberto Kelly

236 Tim Leary

237 Jim Leyritz

238 Kevin Maas

239 Don Mattingly

240 Hensley Meulens

241 Eric Plunk

242 Steve Sax

243 Todd Burns

244 Jose Canseco

245 Dennis Eckersley

246 Mike Gallego

247 Dave Henderson

248 Rickey Henderson

249 Rick Honeycutt

250 Carney Lansford

251 Mark McGwire

252 Mike Moore

253 Terry Steinbach

254 Dave Stewart

255 Walt Weiss

256 Bob Welch

257 Curt Young

258 Wes Chamberlain

259 Pat Combs

260 Darren Daulton

261 Jose DeJesus

262 Len Dykstra

263 Charlie Hayes

264 Von Hayes

265 Ken Howell

266 John Kruk

267 Roger McDowell

268 Mickey Morandini

269 Terry Mulholland

270 Dale Murphy

271 Randy Ready

272 Dickie Thon

273 Stan Belinda

274 Jay Bell

275 Barry Bonds

276 Bobby Bonilla

277 Doug Drabek

278 Carlos Garcia RC

279 Neal Heaton

280 Jeff King

281 Bill Landrum

282 Mike LaValliere

283 Jose Lind

284 Orlando Merced RC

285 Gary Redus

286 Don Slaught

287 Andy Van Slyke

288 Jose DeLeon

289 Pedro Guerrero

290 Ray Lankford

291 Joe Magrane

292 Jose Oquendo

293 Tom Pagnozzi

294 Bryn Smith

295 Lee Smith

296 Ozzie Smith

297 Milt Thompson

298 Craig Wilson

299 Todd Zeile

300 Shawn Abner

301 Andy Benes

302 Paul Faries

303 Tony Gwynn

304 Greg W. Harris

305 Thomas Howard

306 Bruce Hurst

307 Craig Lefferts

308 Fred McGriff

309 Dennis Rasmussen

310 Bip Roberts

311 Benito Santiago

312 Garry Templeton

313 Ed Whitson

314 Dave Anderson

315 Kevin Bass

316 Jeff Brantley

317 John Burkett

318 Will Clark

319 Steve Decker

320 Scott Garrelts

321 Terry Kennedy

322 Mark Leonard

323 Darren Lewis

324 Greg Litton

325 Willie McGee

326 Kevin Mitchell

327 Don Robinson

328 Andres Santana

329 Robby Thompson

330 Jose Uribe

331 Matt Williams

332 Scott Bradley

333 Henry Cotto

334 Alvin Davis

335 Ken Griffey Sr.

336 Ken Griffey Jr.

337 Erik Hanson

338 Brian Holman

339 Randy Johnson

340 Edgar Martinez UER

341 Tino Martinez

342 Pete O'Brien

343 Harold Reynolds

344 Dave Valle

345 Omar Vizquel

346 Brad Arnsberg

347 Kevin Brown

348 Julio Franco

349 Jeff Huson

350 Rafael Palmeiro

351 Geno Petralli

352 Gary Pettis

353 Kenny Rogers

354 Jeff Russell

355 Nolan Ryan

356 Ruben Sierra

357 Bobby Witt

358 Roberto Alomar

359 Pat Borders

360 Joe Carter UER

361 Kelly Gruber

362 Tom Henke

363 Glenallen Hill

364 Jimmy Key

365 Manny Lee

366 Rance Mulliniks

367 John Olerud

368 Dave Stieb

369 Duane Ward

370 David Wells

371 Mark Whiten

372 Mookie Wilson

Major League Prospects

373 Willie Banks

374 Steve Carter

375 Scott Chiamparino

376 Steve Chitren

377 Darrin Fletcher

378 Rich Garces

379 Reggie Jefferson

380 Eric Karros RC

381 Pat Kelly

382 Chuck Knoblauch

383 Denny Neagle

384 Dan Opperman

385 John Ramos

386 Henry Rodriguez

387 Mo Vaughn

388 Gerald Williams RC

389 Mike York

390 Eddie Zosky

Great Performances

391 Barry Bonds

392 Cecil Fielder

393 Rickey Henderson

394 David Justice

395 Nolan Ryan

396 Bobby Thigpen

Checklists

397 Gregg Jefferies

398 Von Hayes

399 Terry Kennedy

400 Nolan Ryan

Errors

89 Tom Browning UER (Front photo is of Norm Char Charlton)

94 Mariano Duncan UER (Right back photo is Billy Hatcher)

104 Beau Allred UER (Card number is 101)

106 Carlos Baerga UER (Card number is 103)

114 Chris James UER (Card number is 111)

119 Mitch Webster UER (Card number is 116)

234 Andy Hawkins UER (Back center photo is not him)

Inserts

Gold Team

1 Barry Bonds

2 Will Clark

3 Doug Drabek

4 Ken Griffey

5 Rickey Henderson

6 Bo Jackson

7 Ray Martin

8 Kirby Puckett

9 Chris Sabo

10 Ryne Sandberg