Score 1988 Major League Baseball

A big thank you goes out to Matt F. for kindly replying to my e-mail ,In which I expressed my interest In writing for  "A Pack To Be Named Later." I've been a fan of the site for a while now and the fact that I've been given the opportunity to contribute truly Is an honor! Maybe one day I'll be fortunate enough to be mentioned In the same breath as Fuji,Night Owl or Nick from Dime Boxes but for now,please excuse my total lack of  writing ability. So with that out of the way, I now present to you - Score 1988 Major League Baseball.

Ya gotta love that packaging! As tamper-proof as It gets. 

Ahhh check out that Beckett Baseball Card Monthly offer on the pack back.

Doesn't "photo quality" depend on the quality of the camera? I would think so.In any case,your getting decent quality shots of  players In action. Here's what I pulled .... 

"Eck" as the face card works for me. I was a huge A's fan in the 80's  and Dennis Eckersley was always a favorite of mine. I may have done permanent damage to my right arm trying to imitate his delivery as a kid. 

"The Hit-Man" ! It was nice to see  Don Mattingly just two cards into the pack.

"The Big Cat" or "El Gran Gato" Is a player I like to collect. Particularly In his Expos uni.

The rest of the pack kind of fizzled out ,Dave Henderson excluded, but the overall experience of opening a pack and posting about It In real-time was a fun one!

Again,many thanks to Matt F. and the rest of the "A Pack To Be Named Later" community. Looking forward to posting again!

1988 Score Baseball

Spring training 2013 is in full swing. So, how about we take a look at a pack that is 25 years old? I wonder if it fits Night Owl's rule of vintage. I recently picked up a 10 pack repack at Target and pulled two of these beauties. This is the better of the two - take the phrase as you like.

A pretty clear celo wrapper by Score. The cartoon on the front is cute. And hey - they are all "photo quality". Take that phrase as you like. We are in line for 17 cards and a magic motion card. Oh boy!! The best card in the set is a Tom Glavine rookie prospect card. I hope I get one!

For those that don't know much about '88 Score - all the cards had the same design, but the set had six different color borders. It was a 660 card set and well.....let's just show the colors, shall we?

Purple was first in the pack. All the cards are grouped in the pack by color. Top card in the pack was a Ryno. Not bad, except he is a Cub. So by 2x3 Heroes guidelines, he sucks. Rules is rules, folks. The Presley card is a nice shot of the ball in flight.

Next is blue. It seems like Esasky & Anderson were posed in the same position, eh? Love the slight sight of specs on Cooper.

Red is following blue in the pack. If you look at the first nine cards, we have a theme. Either you are hitting or you are fielding your position. These "photo quality" cards lack "photo variety".

Green. First view of a pitcher's card in the pack. If you wanted to put a bet that the pitchers would be photographed mid delivery, I would not have taken it.

Yellow cards. If you remember the pack, we have 17 cards. So one of the borders colors in the pack would be shorted a card. Guess padding it out to 18 cards would have broken the bank at Score. Two nice pitchers in this pack with Orel and Viola.

The last border was orange. And holy crap - is that a fielder IN MOTION? Fire the guy who approved that image on the prospect card!

Here is the motion card I pulled. Scanned both sides for you. The card is referencing an event at Ebbets Field on 9/16/1924. And for the last scan, how about the card back?

The border around the team name matches the color of the front. Lots of small print on the back of the card, so get your reading glasses. Junk wax at it's finest.