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.

If you collected baseball cards in the 1980s you definitely remember Donruss Diamond Kings, perhaps the first cards you ever pulled from packs worthy of the phrase, "Hang it in the Louvre!" ...

In the early 1980s, collectors simply couldn't get enough of Cal Ripken (or brother Billy, as it turned out!), and his 1985 Donruss Diamond Kings card was just one more card to take straight to ...