88 Score questions

[swarmee]

Could either be color fading or the yellow color pass wasn't complete for some reason.
Do you know about the 1988 Score promo cards?
https://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/...mos,sr,ot,i100
On COMC, the Larkin (green border instead of purple) sold for $50, Moreland $40, and Boyd $13.

PSA recognizes them as proof cards, and you can tell them apart because their stat lines for 1987 is all zeroes. Baseballcardpedia lists six cards in the set, but PSA has graded 2 Don Mattingly cards as proofs. Could be "mechanical errors."
http://www.psacard.com/pop/baseball-...e-proofs/93085

[Cliff Bowman]

I would say it is a print defect, the top quarter of the card is normal but starting at his mustache and just above CATCHER on down you can see where the card has a printing problem, and then it returns to the normal printing at the bottom where the SCORE is printed.

[JoeDfan]

I thought that, but then also I thought maybe someone left that part of the card in their back window for three months or something.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by JoeDfan

I thought that, but then also I thought maybe someone left that part of the card in their back window for three months or something.

I doubt it took 3 months.

[Cliff Bowman]

If it was sun exposure and the top and bottom of the card were shaded by other cards, then it would have been nice and straight areas of differently colored ink sections, but if you look closely at the top area where it changes it is very jagged and uneven, that is why I thought it was a printing process defect.

[judsonhamlin]

On the same topic, how rare are the first printing spelling errors like Anderson, Franconia and Brenley? Some seem to come up on eBay fairly often, others not so much.