1988 Score: A Forgotten Gem

[bbcard1]

I saw the 88 Score factory sets at a show for $1 ea or $10 for a case of 12. i had trouble passing. But I did.

[REGGIE206]

1988 Score was the first box I bought.. or should I say my parents bought me. Haha. I too loved the bio, face photo on the back, and especially the action pictures in the front. Good times!

[Exhibitman]

I have a soft spot for this set since it was one of the first things I bought when I got back into collecting after the teenage hiatus. I still like the design, images and backs. I still think they are great looking cards:



I recently bought a box for a few bucks and opened it; lots of fun. The packs were these stretchy polybags that damaged at least one or two cards per if you tried to pull them apart.

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by bbcard1

I saw the 88 Score factory sets at a show for $1 ea or $10 for a case of 12. i had trouble passing. But I did.

Todd:

At that price --- it's a win. Heck, at that price I would buy them to use at door prizes for my Adat show.

Rich

[ALR-bishop]

I mostly collect Topps, Fleer and original Bowman sets, but did the inaugural Donruss, Sportsflix, and Score sets as well. I like to do any recognized variations with any set. When I first read this thread I realized I had not done the variations. The Trading Card Database listed 8. It was mentioned in this thread they are not expensive but hard to find. They were a little hard to find but finally got them all, plus one of the Sample cards John mentioned ( Larkin with green versus purple border and 0s for 1987 stats)

Worthless set but was fun running down the variations.

I realized I had an extra hand collated set ( only one of the variations though ) If anyone wants it they can have it. Would even ship it on me. I hate to throw stuff away.

[Tere1071]

I would be interested if no one else has claimed it.

Phil aka Tere1071

[Exhibitman]

What is there not to like?

[ALR-bishop]

Originally Posted by Tere1071

I would be interested if no one else has claimed it.

Phil aka Tere1071

Went in the mail today Phil

[hockeyhockey]

is it really easy to tell a glossy 1988 score from a regular one? i assume if you have 2 next to each other, pretty easy. but from just looking at the cards, it's not that easy. in hindsight maybe these glossy/matte sets should've had another indicator on the back (even a few of those tiffany vs topps sets are hard to tell).