You could find all three sets in San Diego that year. It seemed like Fleer was mainly at 7-11 stores, they seemed to all have those cards. Topps was at the usual places, Donruss was a little harder to find, but they were around.
It was easy to complete the Fleer set, two boxes would usually do it as there were no duplicates in a box. Topps was pretty easy to complete also, though took a bit more packs. Donruss was almost impossible to complete from packs, crazy collation.
Of the three, I liked Donruss the best for all the colors and fun cards like Yogi Berra and extra cards of some of the stars like Pete Rose. I also liked the challenge of trying to get a complete set, as there was no real challenge with the others.
When all the variations in Fleer and Donruss became known, there was a frenzy to get all of those at the time. A friend told me there were Fleer Nettles cards at a particular 7-11 near him, so I drove over there and bought 3 boxes, got 3 or 4 Nettles I think along with other variations.
It was a fun year for cards, for the first time in my life there were others besides Topps, nice to get some different perspectives on baseball cards other than the usual Topps.
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