The 2021 Donruss Baseball variations come in many forms. Some have different photos. Others use nicknames for the player or their city. And some squish letters together a little differently on the back.

Between the main base set and the Retro 1987 subset, there are 38 total variations in 2021 Donruss Baseball. Although exact odds haven’t been announced, they don’t appear to be very hard to pull.

Variations also have a full range of parallels like the base cards:

• Career Stat Line
• Season Stat Line
• Blue Holo
• Independence Day
• Liberty
• Orange Holo
• Pink Holo
• Purple Holo
• Red Holo
• Red – /2021
• One Hundred – /100
• On Fire – /75
• Presidential Collection – /50
• Mask Emoji – /19
• Artist Proof – /10
• Press Proof – /5
• Number 1 – 1/1
• Printing Plates – 1/1

How to Spot 2021 Donruss Baseball Variations

For the most part, the variations aren’t difficult to identify. Some may not jump out right away, like the nickname cards and those that play with the city name. Still, once you see it, there’s no question.

Photo variations are a little tougher unless you have both cards next to each other. They don’t draw attention to themselves and it doesn’t look like Panini included any sort of giveaway on the back like they did with the 2020 Donruss variations.

Three 2021 Donruss Baseball variations are extremely difficult to notice and play off some obscure printing variances found in some vintage sets where the spacing comes out differently in the text. For Christian Yelich and Babe Ruth, it means words dropping to another line. For Starling Marte, the tell is how much space there is between his teams and games played for his 2020 stats.

Panini doesn’t use production codes in their products so looking to the fine print isn’t relevant with these.

2021 Donruss Baseball Variations Checklist

Here’s a quick 2021 Donruss Baseball variations checklist so you can see them all at a glance. If you’re looking for a particular card, click on the links to see what’s currently available on eBay.

2021 Donruss Baseball Variations Gallery

67 Mike Yastrzemski, San Francisco Giants

71 Fernando Tatis Jr., San Diego Padres

79 Josh Donaldson, Minnesota Twins

82 Keston Hiura, Milwaukee Brewers

90 Lucas Giolito, Chicago White Sox

101 Walker Buehler, Los Angeles Dodgers

105 Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers

107 Anthony Rendon, Los Angeles Angels

130 Javier Baez, Chicago Cubs

139 Francisco Lindor, Cleveland Indians

143 Luis Robert, Chicago White Sox

146 Nolan Arenado, Colorado Rockies

150 Jacob deGrom, New York Mets

154 Starling Marte, Miami Marlins

155 Brandon Lowe, Tampa Bay Rays

161 Kris Bryant, Chicago Cubs

165 Bo Bichette, Toronto Blue Jays

170 Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels

172 Yadier Molina, St. Louis Cardinals

173 Bryce Harper, Philadelphia Phillies

174 Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros

182 Aaron Judge, New York Yankees

183 Shane Bieber, Cleveland Indians

189 Joey Gallo, Texas Rangers

200 Christian Yelich, Milwaukee Brewers

202 Jose Altuve, Houston Astros

206 Max Scherzer, Washington Nationals

212 Gerrit Cole, New York Yankees

216 Jim Thome, Cleveland Indians

223 Lance Berkman, Houston Astros

228 Babe Ruth, New York Yankees

235 Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle Mariners

236 Roger Clemens, Boston Red Sox

239 Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs

240 Bartolo Colon, Cleveland Indians

247 Rickey Henderson, New York Yankees

253 Alex Rodriguez, Seattle Mariners

257 Paul Molitor, Milwaukee Brewers