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Why This Card Matters

Donruss went for the story rather than the stat line, and it is a good one: “Smoltz was 7 years old when he informed his mom he wanted to play baseball as a career. That was a good dream, she told him, but he needed a backup plan. So the native of car-crazed Michigan said he would be a filling station attendant. It never came to that, of course, as he wound up pumping gas over the plate instead of into cars.” The career line beside it: 213-155, a 3.33 ERA, 723 games, 481 starts, 154 saves, 3,473 innings and 3,084 strikeouts with a 1.18 WHIP. John Smoltz was born May 15, 1967 in Detroit and came to Atlanta in one of the most lopsided trades in baseball history — the Tigers sent him over for Doyle Alexander in 1987. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2015.

Market-Informed Pricing

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Professional Imaging

High-resolution scans and photos so you can inspect corners, edges, surface, and centering yourself. What you see is what you get.

Secure Shipping

Penny sleeve, top loader or card saver, team bag, and rigid protection in every shipment. Packed right, shipped fast, from a smoke-free environment.

Donruss Paper — Not Donruss Optic

Donruss and Donruss Optic share the same numbering and get mixed up constantly. Optic is a separate chromium product; this is the paper Donruss, non-foil, with the classic Donruss “D” logo. Not the Optic base, Blue or Orange Velocity, Optic Circles, Optic Holo, Flex Prizm /149, Lime Green /149, Black Velocity /39, Gold Prizm /10, Green Scope /65, Gold Glitter FOTL /5 or Jazz Prizm SSP. On the paper side it is also not the Green Laser, Red and Blue Foil, Carolina Blue Laser /249, Orange Lazer /299, Purple Ice /99, Silver Die Cut /75, Gold Die-Cut /25, Artist Proof /25, Presidential Collection /47, Liberty, Rockets, Flames /75 or Star Prizm /250. Panini is unlicensed, so the card reads only ATLANTA.