1989 Score Football

hockeyguy

What is a typical break on this box ?
Do you get a full set out of a box ?

I bought a set, some packs, and a bunch of Barry Sanders (being in Detroit), when they first came out
but I never bought & broke down any boxes (I wasted too much time & $ with the Pro Set)
I thought at the time that the college uniforms in the Pro Set would be the "WINNERS"

I only took notice (or forgot) that there are 2 different box versions.
Any difference ?
The supplement was only released in factory sets, right ?

MBMiller25

I never cracked much wax on the 89 Score when it first came out. I did purchase a ton of vending boxes though when it first came out and you could build a set from a vending box. The update cards strictly come in factory set form. You can pick up factory update sets for $5.00 on average. I just bought two factory sets and update sets for $100.00.

Hope that helps, and PS, I remember those Pro Set rip days. I remember trading all my Barry Sanders cards in 89 Score and Pro Set for Eric Metcalf cards. Boy I sure could pick them back then!

ldferg

i purchased a vending box and collation and condition was very poor.

hockeyguy

The 1989 Pro Set Football is still a fun box to rip open. Too bad they made so much of it, that my grocer stocks it, whenever they are low on toilet paper.

I really thought all those rookie cards in their college uniforms would be the hotter of the two, but I guess not.

Remember how hot the supplement set (Sterling Sharp) was ? $5 bucks nowadays ?

Man, time is rolling by FAST. Thats a set from the 80's & 20 years old !

Thanks for the info

hockeyguy

MBMiller25

how do you feel you did on your BGS sales ?

elsnorto

I have opened 5 or 6 of these over the years and never failed to get a set out of a single box. There are 540 cards in a box, the set is only 330 cards, and the collation in these was pretty good in the boxes I cracked. It's also nice that these packs are tamper evident, loaded with HOF rookies, and sell for around $150 - $200 these days.

Snorto~

hockeyguy

<< <i>It's also nice that these packs are tamper evident >>



Can you see through the plastic wrapper ? I think each pack has some 3d cards too & possibly a game card ? Or was that Pro Set ? Anyway, is there a way search these packs ?

mtcards

It is fairly easy to see the top and bottom card in each pack, although I dont believe the cards had a consistent sequence in them. I havent opened many lately so not sure on that part, but you can definitely see 2 cards in each pack.

Gator

Doesn't that update set have a Bo Jackson in football pads holding a baseball bat? That was a really hot card back in those days.

hockeyguy

<< <i>Doesn't that update set have a Bo Jackson in football pads holding a baseball bat? That was a really hot card back in those days. >>




Yup, it's in there

But the Sterling card was THE card in the set & sold for a lot of $, until the injury & then the set went nowhere

Rogermnj

<< <i>i purchased a vending box and collation and condition was very poor. >>



wow, i have been around a while and i have never heard of 89 score football vending.

ldferg

you don't see the vending that often. i think your money is better spent on a wax box. just my .02

otwcards

The vending is very, very inconsistent. Some boxes are loaded, some are not. I've seen boxes with 4-5 Rod Woodsons as the biggest RC and no Aikman, Sanders, Deion, and a single Carter or Irvin. I've seen others with 3 Aikman and/or Sanders. Depending upon storage and handling it could be a gold mine or a polished turd.

A clean vending box will offer up a fair share of PSA 10's.

Wax, on the other hand, is pretty consistent, But I've seen MANY boxes that have been searched (finger-nailed). Understand the tell-tale signs of this and also know your seller.

lsutigers1973

The 89 Score football are sequenced but it is almost impossible to find the key rookies by the top or bottom card. I believe the sequence changes every 3 cards and the rookies were always in the middle. So, knowing the top or bottom card would only help you find out what the next 2 cards are.

MBMiller25

<< <i>how do you feel you did on your BGS sales ? >>



Hockeyguy, I was 50/50 on the sales: Pleased with the 89 Griffey Tiffany going for $295, Gwynn Topps going for $265 and Ripken RC going for 260 (at least based on recent sales). I was unhappy with Boggs and Sandberg going for $105 and $118 respectively. I was very displeased with the Ripken Fleer going for just $380.

I decided to keep the Jeter and Arod cards based on strong subs, and my lack of any desire to go out and replace those cards with PSA versions.

billwaltonsbeard

<< <i> Wax, on the other hand, is pretty consistent, But I've seen MANY boxes that have been searched (finger-nailed). Understand the tell-tale signs of this and also know your seller. >>



Ah yes.....fingernail searching Score packs! Admittedly, back in 1988 I spent many, many hours at the local Walmart using this method to find Gregg Jefferies rookies. Obviously I'm now retired and living solely off of them.

hockeyguy

<< <i> Pleased ... Gwynn Topps going for $265
I was unhappy with Boggs and Sandberg going for $105 and $118 respectively >>




I thought it was kind of odd that the Gwynn went for so much more, than the other two (or the other way around)

MBMiller25

There is not the disperity between the Sandberg and Boggs vs. Gwynn cards in PSA grades, but there has always been a pretty big disperity between those two cards and the Gwynn BGS 9.5 cards. I will be replacing that Gwynn BGS 9.5 with a Gwynn PSA 10.

mtcards

Ahhh, the good old days of searching packs. The only money I made while in college was from searching packs. 89-90 Hoops display stands at 11 Kroger stores in the Knoxville area yielded hundreds of David Robinson Series II cards. Buy price - .40 Sell Price to local card shops $3.00, not to mention the fact that Kevin Johnson RC were in the same run which I still have dozens of.

Also 1990 Score Baseball, Fingernailing for the "BO" and Frank Thomas RC's


I felt guilty about doing this until the cards became almost worthless 10 years later