Conference school::sports_memorabilia

618.0. "1994 Score Baseball" by PENUTS::JST_ONGE (John St.Onge USDSL DTN 275-2715) Tue Dec 28 1993 09:35

    My wife got me two boxes of 1994 Score Baseball for Christmas. Cards
    are fairly nice - dark blue borders,  UV coated on both sides.  When
    you think about it, these "regular" cards are as nice as the premium
    Pinnacle cards. Anyway, there's 330 cards in Series I  and  I didn't
    get a complete set from the two boxes (typical Score collation).
    
    There's 13 cards in each pack plus a bonus Gold Rush card.  The Gold
    Rush cards are gold foil border  with  the background foil also. Out
    of the two boxes I didn't  get  a single double of these.  There are
    also 10 Dream Team insert cards (odds are 1 per 72 packs)  and  also
    30 National League Gold Stars (odds are 1 per 18 packs).  I got four
    Gold Stars which were the odds and a Dream Team Juan Gonzalez.
    
    One thing different about this Score issue  is that they have check-
    lists for the first time. The checklists are team checklists and the
    stadiums for each team are shown on the card with the team checklist
    on back (includes series II cards).  American League team checklists
    are in the first series.  Very nice checklists. They also have these
    in the Gold Rush cards also.
    
    While a nice set, the design itself is not exciting and collation is
    bad as usual  for  Score.  I give it three sticks out of five on the
    Gum-O-Meter.
    
    John