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    I assume there will be Series I and Series II as in past years, right?
    
    Regards,
    Denny

    
    Yes, series I and II again, I believe they will once again be 264
    in each series.
    
    jeff
    

    
    I've already been shopping for these in SCD and have been quoted prices
    in the area of $65 a box. Right now everything is still sketchy as to
    price and content. We should know more by the first week in June.
    I'd be happy?paying $50 per box? 8^}
    
    
    
    
    

    I'm waiting for Stadium Club II & III,now It's leaf I & II,I think 
    that I'll go out and find a part time job,I just can't keep up with
    all the new stuff coming out. 8-( 8-(.
     

    Re: .4
    
    Don't forget Fleer Ultra II, OPC Premiere Baseball, Score Pinnacle
    Baseball and so forth.
    
    John

    Anyone interested in preordering (splitting a case/or two) 92 LEAF 
    boxes ?
    
    Has anyone been quoted "hard" prices for a case of 92 series I ?  
    
         (How many boxes in a case this year..10, 12, 20 ?)
    
    

    Possibly,, depending on the price...

    
    I can get $45/box on pre-order from guys I know who run a store
    in my home town of Merrimack, nh.  Money has to be in by the end
    of May (this saturday the 31st), expected delivery end of June.
    
    I was thinking of getting one box myself, can we do better (than
    $45/box) by trying to buy a whole case?
    
    jeff
    

    
    Re .6 :  It's a ten box case, just like last year's I believe.  So
    if someone can get a hard quote for less than $450/case, let us know.
    Otherwise we can get single boxes for $45 on pre-order, but we
    have to decide in the next 2 days.
    
    jeff
    

    
    
    
    $450 is probably the best you'll find at this point. I called
    Rotmans today, they are sold out on their pre orders (sold out
    @$42.50).
    I locked in some today for $47.90. This guy is in Calf. I'll
    try to pass along the order info later. He said he would be selling
    10 box cases. He did mention that this pre order is for the second
    shipment and that when the first shipment goes "live" the second
    shipment will follow about 3 weeks later (early July). The "live"
    stuff will be more expensive just because you'll have a whole lot
    of dealers and collectors with no patience, This is probably what
    drives prices up so quickly. Yesterday I talked to the guy I'm getting
    my series 2 std clb from ($52.50 on preorder). He said that series2 is
    now live and selling for $65 a box.
    
    
    Jim

    Jeff,
    if your looking for some takers,I'll take a box at $45.00 !
    
    John M.
    

    I have the checklist for the 1992 Leaf. The Gold Leaf Rookies are:
    BC-1 Chad Curtis
      -2 Brent Gates
      -3 Pedro Martinez
      -4 kenny Lofton
      -5 Turk Wendell
      -6 Mark Hutton
      -7 Todd Hundley
      -8 Matt Stairs
      -9 Eddie Taubensee
     -10 Davis Nied
     -11 Salomon Torres
     -12 Bret Boone
    
    I also have the team checklists. Some players are:
    
    Hoiles, Ripken Jr, Mussina, McDonnell
    Clemens (the soon to be Pawsox twins (Plantier and Vaughn) too)
    Abbot, DiSarcina
    Alverez, Ventura
    Baerga, Lewis
    Fielder, Livingstone
    Brett
    Yount, Eldred
    Knoblaugh, Puckett, Erickson, Tapani
    Kelley (pat and Roberto), Mattingly
    Henerdson, McGwire, Van Poppell
    Mitchell
    Jaun Gonzales, Rodriquez, Ryan, Reimer, Palmer
    Alomar, Bell, Guzman, Winfield
    Avery, Gant
    Dawson
    Larkin
    Bagwell
    Strawberry
    DeShields
    Cone, Gooden, Johnson
    Van Slyke
    Benes, Gwynn
    Clark, McGee
    Jose, Lankford, Lee Smith

    
    A local radio show had a Leaf rep. on today. He said that there is
    1 gold edition in each pack and that there will not be any gold edition 
    factory sets made.
    
    
    Jim

    
    Bought my first packs tonight, still waiting for the pre-order
    boxes, guy was selling them for $2/pack.  Looks like we have the
    gimmicky Gold Leaf Stars subset of 33 available only from your
    local hobby dealer who order donruss factory sets, a regular
    528 card, two series silver Leaf set and a matching 528 Gold
    Edition set, plus 24 Gold Leaf Rookies like last year.  12 each
    in series I and II (number BC-1 to BC-24).
    
    The Gold Editions are nice and I like the one per pack deal, makes
    me wonder however what will happen to the value of the regular silver
    set though.  In five packs I got one Gold Leaf rookie, BC-1, Chad
    Curtis.  These gold rookies have a different design, boarderless
    picture with a sortof odd looking gold box outline about 1/4 inch
    in from the edge.  Diamonds on the corners and same backs as gold
    editions.
    
    I think I like last year's gold leaf rookies better, at least on
    first impression.
    
    jeff
    

    
    Yuck!  Broke a box and the distribution looks pretty bad.  Sitting
    here looking at piles of ten I have loads of 1-60 and 200-264, much
    less of the 70s thru 130s and very few of 140s to 190s.  You would
    think out of 540 cards you could get one set of 1-264.  I don't
    remember Leaf distribution being this bad in the past two years,
    maybe I just got a bogus box.
    
    looking for trading partners,
    
    jeff
    

    
    Forgot to mention, I got six Gold Leaf Rookies in the box.  Maybe
    since they are giving you one Gold Edition per pack Leaf feels they
    don't have to give as many gold rooks as last year.  I consistantly
    got 8 or 9 in last year's boxes (the old one per layer).  It again
    was one per layer, but 3 layers had none.
    
    jeff
    

    Sounds like Leaf is collated like last year's Studio when I only got
    half of a 264 card set, no numnbers ending with 1-5. Pays to trade.
    
    John

    
    62 cards short of a 264 card set out of 540 cards in the box, boo
    hiss.
    

    
    Another tidbit for your consumption:
    
    No one I have spoken with in the last few days who has broke down
    any Leaf has gotten a Gold Edition card over #132.  Go figure.
    
    jeff
    

    I picked up checklist #199 so it must be the distribution somehow.
    
    John

    
    
    	I have a question about a "special" Leaf box that only
    	dealers were supposed to have access to.  At one of the
    	card shows I saw a dealer selling these Leaf packs for
    	$5 each (not sure about the price).   A guy at the show 
    	bought a pack, opened it and there were only 2 cards in it, 
    	so I asked him about it, and he said that those were "special"
    	boxes and only dealers were offered the chance to buy
        them.  I don't recall anyone here discussing anything
    	like that.  Can someone offer more information on this ?.
                                            

    
    Mike Kelly detailed these somewhere in the notesfile.  $5
    is cheap.  The cheapeast I've seen those packs is $14.
    
    -rjk

    see note 450 re Gold Leaf Stars (packs of 2)
    

    
    	Thanks, Roy and Jeff, I do remember reading about it, now
    	that I looked at it again, but somehow didn't pay much
    	attention to it, probably because it was so expensive.
    

    I read a letter Leaf sent out to dealers regarding the Gold
    Card distribution. It seems that cards 1-132 were distributed in
    some cases and 133-264 in others. Donruss is offering to
    take back duplicates of either grouping and replace them
    with a the same number of cards from the other grouping.
    
    They stated that in later production runs the problem was corrected
    and that gold cards from 1-264 were randomly distributed.
    
    If you are into the gold cards find a dealer who has the 1-132
    distribution. That group has Clemens, Ryan and Ripken. You have
    a greater chance of finding the gold.....
    
    I bought 64 gold cards yesterday. Included were Ripken, Ryan,
    Clemens and the Thomas checklist. I am about 20 cards away from
    completing 1-132. I don't think I'll go any further but it is fun
    trying for the first 1/4 of the set. I paid $33 for the group
    (3X BBC). Has anyone seen these for sale at shows/shops? What
    are the commons going for? All I have left is commons.
    
    Thanks, Steve

	I've noticed alot of you already have purchased boxes of series II.

	I've seen them around, from place to place (not at shows), and there
	selling for ~$50/box... I found this to be a little high since I
	purchased my series boxes for $43. What's a good price to pay for
	series II boxes, and where have you been getting them?

	Thanks
	Mike

    
    Some one in SCD is selling series I and II boxes for $39 each.
    
    (No I don't recall the dealer)

    An article in Baseball Cards magazine said that some dealers received
    cases of the gold cards. Nice ...
    
    John

	Is card #528 actually the header card that says 'Leaf Set'?

	Last years set had 529 cards.. 528 numbered cards and 1 header
	card that said 'Leaf Set'.

	?Thanks?

    
    Re: .29
    
    Mike, check the checklists to see what card #528 is ...
    
    John