1988 Score: A Forgotten Gem

[EldoEsq]

I picked up an 88 Score factory set at a garage sale for $3 a month ago... I might have gotten ripped off investment-wise, but the memories of being an 8th grader when these came out made it worth it!!

Gregg Jefferies...I swear I thought that card would be worth a million dollars one day...

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[Econteachert205]

Loved the 88 score design. They went downhill from there.

[judsonhamlin]

Agree that it was a innovative design for 1988. There are also some sneaky tough spelling variations (Francona, Andersen, Neidenfuer, etc) that aren't expensive but rarely come up for sale

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Econteachert205

Loved the 88 score design. They went downhill from there.

I liked the 1988/89/90 sets, after those 3 I agree they went downhill.

[D. Bergin]

Nice, I loved this set when it first came out. The different colored borders (reminded me of 75 Topps), the sometimes blurry action photos on the front (76 Topps, 82 Fleer), the color photo and the seeming 50,000 character twitter limit on the back of the card (1986 Sportflics).

For some reason, the regular set seemed to be relegated to junk wax status even quicker then the 88' Donruss Baseball and the 90' ProSet Football.

[Rich Klein]

I guarantee you there are less 1988-91 Score cards in the hobby than any of the other major companies of that time.

Not that they are rare or scarce but they do show up much less than Donruss or Topps and 1989-91 Fleer.

Rich

[steve B]

This set is one I collect, perhaps in a less than sane fashion.

There were three different sorts of die cuts used to cut the sheet into cards.
Plus the listed variations
Plus different printings that were screened differently.

And of course, the scans on Ebay can't show enough detail to know which one you're looking at.
The second type of die cut is actually pretty hard to find.

Steve B

[insidethewrapper]

The 1988 Score Glossy Regular Set and Update is a tough set. Low production.

[Bigdaddy]

I had a half-gallon bucket of those little white, fuzzy 'balls' that were on all four corners of some of the cards. Wonder what that would be worth today???

Originally Posted by steve B

This set is one I collect, perhaps in a less than sane fashion.

There were three different sorts of die cuts used to cut the sheet into cards.
Plus the listed variations
Plus different printings that were screened differently.

And of course, the scans on Ebay can't show enough detail to know which one you're looking at.
The second type of die cut is actually pretty hard to find.

Steve B

[mortimer brewster]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

I guarantee you there are less 1988-91 Score cards in the hobby than any of the other major companies of that time.

Not that they are rare or scarce but they do show up much less than Donruss or Topps and 1989-91 Fleer.

Rich

I remember in the mid 1990's the Kay Bee Toy Stores in Western New York had dozens of wax boxes of 1989 Donruss piled in a corner. They could not give them away. Multiply that by however many stores across the country and that's a lot of trees.

I know many collectors don't consider the back of the card when determining their favorite set, but I have always liked the early score sets for the player info.

[ALR-bishop]

I have a couple of Kay Bee/Topps co branded boxed baseball card sets. (86/87/88/89/90)