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Pinnacle Brands was a trading card company from 1988 to 1998. With its first baseball card set called Score, it changed the baseball card industry from the "Big Three" (Donruss, Fleer, Topps) that had been in place for seven years prior. Score's first set used a bold colorful border design (with 110 cards each in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet colored borders, like a rainbow) and was the first major set to have a full color backside with a color mugshot of the player. The player biographies were by far the most extensive of any major baseball card set of its time. The 1991 and 1992 sets at 893 cards were among the largest card sets of that time. Donruss is a U.S. brand of bubble gum and trading card. ... The Fleer Corporation, founded by Frank H. Fleer in the mid-19th century, was the first company to successfully manufacture bubblegum. ... Some Topps Baseball cards from 1977 The Topps Company, Inc. ...

Pinnacle Brands began production of its first premium quality set, called Pinnacle, in 1992 and used a distinctive black bordered design for its first two years. Another key set, called Select, began the year afterward. Starting in 1997, Pinnacle Brands randomly inserted in its Pinnacle set and other sets the original individual printing plates handsigned by Pinnacle's CEO Jerry Meyer, with eight plates per card (both front and back of the card and in each of the four printing colors; black, cyan, magenta, and yellow). The 1998 printing plates were not signed however.

Pinnacle Brands went out of business after the 1998 season.

Source: Beckett (Annual) Baseball Card Price Guide