In 1982, the main competitors of the Topps baseball cards were Fleer and Donruss. Fleer was actually the first company to start issuing sports cards in gum and candy packages, starting with a 1923 baseball card set included in their Bobs and Fruit Hearts candy. Though the company changed hands, there were baseball cards bearing the Fleer brand up until 2007.
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The first Donruss baseball cards were issued in 1981. The 1982 Fleer baseball card set had 660 cards. They were organized in the order that the teams finished the season that year, and alphabetized by the last name of the player. The Cal Ripken Jr. rookie card is of special interest in this set. In this second year for Donruss baseball card sets, they also issued 660 cards in their set, with the popular Diamond Kings subset featuring a Dick Perez painting that highlighted one of the top players from each team. The 1982 Topps baseball card set features 792 cards.