Manufacturer:  Fleer Corp.

Set Count: 660

Front:  White border, this white card stock, no gloss. Colored photo border which changes by team (with some relation to actual team colors).  Team name written in script in a baseball on lower left.  Color of script roughly matches team colors. Player name and position in black on yellow background at bottom.

Back: Unfinished, horizontal orientation. Player career stats, personal stats.

Subsets Cards: Award winners, Mamnager, special cards, checklist

Parallel Cards: None

Inserts: None

Top Cards (June/July 2008 Beckett Baseball Card Plus): Rickey Henderson #574 ($6.00); Nolan Ryan #57 ($5.00); Fernando Valenzuela #140 (RC $5.00), Kirk Gibson #481 (RC $5.00).

Comments: Fleer and Donruss broke the Topps monopoly on baseball cards in 1981. Photographs are mostly posed shots with some on-field shots mixed in.  Of the three sets from 1981, Fleer had the worst photography.  The cards are arranged in team order depending on 1980 finish.  The Phillies, who won the 1980 World Series are first, followed by the Royals who lost the Series. Teams alternate by league in order of finish.

Base Card (Pete Rose)

Award Winners (Rickey Henderson) Not a true subset. A line of text about the award is added above the player name. (Image from Beckett.com)

Manager (Earl Weaver) (Image from Beckett.com)

Specials (Mike Schmidt, Larry Bowa, Pete Rose) In a few years, Fleer will call this sort of card a Superstar Special.

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