Conference school::sports_memorabilia

549.0. "1993 Score Baseball" by FUTURE::JST_ONGE (John St.Onge USDSL DTN 275-2715) Wed Apr 07 1993 00:31

    I opened three boxes  of  1993 Score Baseball (the kind that's still
    affordable).  Anyway,  there's only one series this year - 660 cards
    in the set.  There's 16 cards per pack, although one of the cards is
    part of a 90 card Score Select Insert set of League Leaders so there
    are many stars in the set including doubles or triples of stars like
    Frank Thomas, Roger Clemens etc.
    
    The regular set once again  has  many  subsets, including an 11 card
    Dream Team set, 22 caricature All-Stars (this theme is getting old),
    a 6 card Award Winners set, Draft Picks and a 10 card Highlight set.
    
    While the fronts don't show it,  the text on the back detail most of
    the trades or free agent signings. Design isn't too bad, but nothing
    to write home about.
    
    For the chase cards, there's a 28 card  "The Franchise"  insert set.
    According to the packs, you should not get less than 1 per 24 packs,
    but in two of the three boxes  I  opened  I got three and two in the
    other box.  In the two boxes  that  Dan McAuliffe picked up for me I
    got Frank Thomas,  Juan Gonzalez,  Ken Griffey Jr.  and  two  Dennis
    Eckersley. I'm going to have Dan pick my boxes up all the time ;-)
    
    In the other box I got a Kirby Puckett and two Don Mattingly's. This
    is a fairly nice insert set.
    
    Overall three sticks out of five on the Gum-o-meter.  So if you want
    to pick up something cheap without worrying  that you spent 50$, 60$
    and you didn't get a Shaq, a Score wax box  will  bring back some of
    the fun of opening wax packs.
    
    John