Topping the list of these were the 1982 Donruss Diamond Kings. What were these new cards, unlike any most young collectors had ever seen? Most of the baseball-themed art we were aware of came in ...

1985 Donruss Diamond Kings Ryne Sandberg #1 / TCDB.com (click image for source page) John Parr may have taken "St. Elmo's Fire" to the top of the charts, but Ryne Sandberg was undoubtedly Chicago ...

Update: 'The Diamond King,' a new full-length documentary from Bremerton filmmaker Marq Evans and McCaw Studios, will show at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 6 at the Roxy Theater, 270 Fourth Street.

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 ...