With 52 of the game's top players off the table, courtesy of the 1982 and 1983 sets, selecting the Diamond Kings for 1984 carried a higher degree of difficulty than years past. For example ...

In the case of Diamond Kings, that meant going with perennial all-star and sure-fire Hall of Famer Steve Garvey over Fernando in 1982. In these early days of Donruss, the Dick Perez treatment was ...