Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Tuesday Twins - going gold with Score in 94

Card Number 912: Score, 1994; #12


Tony is swinging on this card. Even with a superspeedy camera shutter, the end of that bat is moving too fast to capture!

Tony is grinning on the back. I really like that photo.

This isn't a complicated cardback, but design-wise it is very well-balanced. Score always had a lot of text on their cardbacks. Here they squeeze in two paragraphs, a complete stats box, and that nice photo.

One thing this cardback chronicles is Tony's sticky patch in the early 90s, when his batting averages dipped to "just" .317. He had a couple of tough years with injuries and conflict in the team. Then, as the story goes, he had a chat with Ted Williams, started using a bigger bat, and went on to win 4 batting titles and post a higher batting average in the last 10 years of his career than in the first 10 years. 

Card Number 913: Score Gold Rush, 1994; #12

I think this is the first year that Score did shiny gold parallels. These cards were found at a rate of one per pack (or two in a "super-pack"). 


The entire front is foiled and the border is rendered in gold. It looks really impressive in real life.

On the back there is a 'Gold Rush' watermark.


The watermark earns the card a bonus point from me because it makes it easy to separate this from the regular version in my folder of scans! 

Total: 913 cards

2 comments:

  1. I knew he had a bond with Williams, but didn't realize that his conversation with him was the reason his average soared over the 2nd half of his career. Very cool piece of Gwynn trivia.

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  2. The Gold Rush cards are annoying because the fronts peel off easily.

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